The New Canadian — February 21, 1941

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VANCOUVER, B. C

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FEBRUARY
New Consul

OVERNMENT REPORT FINDS

Japanese Canadians loyal
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^ that the Federal GovLament will do all m its
K to prevent disturbances
civil security or national de
bv guarding
against
^vholb’ unsubstantiated and
^responsible charges and ac­
cusations”
against Japanese
I Canadians, was made in the
house of Commons Monday, by
I'prime Minister King, who vitoloroudv denounced “an unfor­
tunate recrudescence of anti[ Oriental and particularly anti-

STORY OF THE WEEK

$1000 Donated To War EFfort
VANCOUVER.—“A practical expression of loyalty and

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Issue identification

I Cards With Photos
By Thomas Shoyama
21—Royal Canadian Mountled Police, working in coni junction with a representa­
tive committee of Japanese
i Canadian citizens will begin
the special registration of
fall people of Japanese racial

mated will take some 3
months to complete, and
will be accomplished by
the
issuing
of
various
types
of
identification
cards, complete with pho­
tographs, signatures and
other necessary informa­
tion.
A conference yesterday
between the
Government
Standing Committee headed
by Mayor Fred Hume and
representatives of the com­
munity selected a working
committee of five Japanese
Canadians
to
co-operate
with the Federal Police to.
ensure the most efficient re­
gistration at minimum cost.
Expressing appreciation
of the co-operation offered
by the community, Mayor
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patriotism!”
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These were the words of Assistant Minister of NationcDefence Charles G. Power this week in acknowledging on
behalf of the Government and the people of Canaaa a gift
$1000 in cash from a Vancouver Japanese Canadian toward
the prosecution of Canadas wax effoit.
The donor of this latest . and to fulfill responsibilities to
contribution, which swells aid Canada in her hour of
Uapanese feeling in British Cothe total of donations from
need.
the community to National
P It the same time the gov­
The text of his letter folDefence Funds well over the
ernment tabled the report of
lows:
S5000 mark, is Bunjiro Uye­
I the special investigating com­
“This first cheque is our
to
mittee, which declared that [ da, of Yamato Silks Limited,
January
contribution
Granville Street dry goods
We
“there is no evidence that
Canada’s defence fund.
firm.
intending to contribute a
I the Japanese population of
ICHIRO KAWASAKI
The donations will -be made total of S1000 during the
| Canada has been engaged in
in
monthly
instalments
anv disloyal or subversive
r 1941. You will receive
Ichiro. Kawasaki, acting con­
an
equal sul-general at San Francisco,
activity.” It recommended throughout 1941, and rollows a a
cheque
for
I however that there should be large contribution, made last amount every month during has been named consul at Vana close watch for signs of dis- year by the same firm to the this coming year to help
couver, to succeed Kenji Na­ Takahashi to Attend
Canadian
Red
Cross
Society.
| loyalty or sabotage.
England win the war.
kauchi, who was appointed to 3rd N.W. Student Advance
VANCOUVER.— Saburo Takaha­
Duty
to
Canada
,
I On a split decision, the com“Briefly, this is our thanks a similar post in Los Angeles
shi,
fourth year engineering studWriting to acknowledge the to the people of Canada whoj^jg week.
| mittee also decided that ~ at
ent,
wlil
be the lone U.B.C. delegate
I least for the present Canadians contribution, the Hon. Charles have been very kind and good
Mr. Nakauchi, who received to the 3rd annual Northwest Stud­
I of Japanese race should not be G. Power said:
to us during the 23 years in official word of his appoint“This practical expression which we have traded under ment Tuesday, goes to his new ent Advance to be held in Seattle
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See “REPORT,” p. 5
of your loyalty and patriot­ the name of Yamato Silks i position after a relatively short this forthcoming week-end.
ism is very much appreciat­ Ltd. Therefore we feel that itv stay
in Vancouver,
having Niseis Parade with
ed
by
my
colleagues
and
my
­
is
our
duty
and
responsibility
7 come to this city in September, Officers' Training Corps
I Dear Old Golden
self; and, on behalf of the to aid Canada in her hour of 2939
VANCOUVER. — Niseiettes lined
Government and the people need.’
.
■! His successor in Vancouver up along Vancouver's streets last
I
Rule Days . . .
of Canada I wish to offer you
“Hoping that our contribu­ has served in London, Czecho­ Sunday afternoon, couldn't help but
I
It’s a far cry from the year sincere thanks for this gift.
tion will help in some way to slovakia, Shanghai, and in the thrill to the sight of a few khaki­
I 1905, when the first Japanese
In
forwarding
the
first wipe out the menace to our home office in Tokyo. He is a clad Nisei swinging along with the
I student, the now successful cheque to the Department of Democracy, we are,
son-in-law of Tatsuo Kawai, U.B.C. contingent of the Canadian
| physician, Dr. Kozo Shimota- National Defence, Mr. Uyeda
Japanese Minister to Australia, Officers' Training Corps in a church
Yours very sincerely,
| kahara, graduated from Strath- wrote that he wished to give
parade to St. Andrew's-Wesley.
Yamato Silks Ltd.
I and is thirty-two years old.
| cona School to 1941, when well thanks to the people of Canada,
Nisei were numbered among the
| over 650 pupils are attending
Cadet officers, and some thirty
| classes daily at the same instistudents marched in the rear with
I tution. but the good old school
the basic military trainees.
| spirit burned as deeply as ever
discussion sessions on the prob- ly in the hands of the C= Opposition to Oriental
I in the hearts of over 100 “old
VANCOUVER, Feb. 21 —
| boys and girls” of Strathcona as
lem with Thomas Shoyama, re;- public, and.could be found only Hospital Again Voiced
Strong
sympathy
and
a
desire
VANCOUVER. — Strenuous op­
SXdL citizens of Panting the Japanese Can- if the question were approached
I they gathered at the Fuji,
and
tolerantly,
reasonably
position to construction of a new
I Thursday evening for a grand Japanese origin was expressed adian Citizens League.
without prejudice.
hospital at Kingsway and 13th Ave­
I re-union.
The Committee agreed that
last night by members of the
An interested listener in nue to take over the work of St.
I
This feeling was touching- Government Affairs Commit­
since the Japanese commun­
Oriental
Hospital
on
the audience was Aiderman Joseph's
j
ly expressed in the form of a tee of the Junior Board of ity has already been estab­
Campbell
Avenue
was
expressed
in
H.
D.
Wilson,
who
spoke
I
donation of S62 towards the Trade, following two lengthy lished in B. C., the only pos­
civic planning committee Monday by
briefly
on
his
stand,
and
left
I
Bessie Johnson Library fund
sible means of solution was
questions relating to dual Aid. H. D. Wilson.
at the school. And as the ers saying that he always en­ to assist Japanese to be­
Protesting also through attorneys
citizenship, language schools,
food grew cold, Dr. Shmio- joyed the most pleasant rela-, come better Canadians. They
was
the International Foursquare
the
gentlemen
’
s
agreement
takahara warmed to the sub- tions with the Nisei pupils and felt that no good was to be
Gospel Church, whose institution
and
increase
of
the
Japan
­
ject of bygone days, and their parents.
achieved by a continued
ese population for Shoyama adjoins the proposed hospital site.
shadowy memories of the “Brown-san” Missed
policy of restriction that pre­
"If the hospital is built, the disto answer.
past brought to life in a way
A much missed figure at the vents Japanese Canadians
..ill be inundated with Orientals
Discussion was continued last | trict wi
by the presence of several banquet was Mr. J. E. Brown, living up to accepted Cana­
going to visit patients in the institu­
noted figures, came back to better known to his countless dian standards.
Ways and night, with members of the tion," exclaimed Aid. Wilson. "Why
committee
firing
questions
for
grads and former pupils.
Japanese friends as “Brown­ means of removing restric­
two hours on many angles of can't the hospital be confined to the
There was Mr. Alfred Rines, san”, who in a letter regretted tions were discussed.
the situation, A including the Oriental section?"
principal from 1913 to 1918, his unavoidable absence. He
In a 45-minute address to the gentlemen’s agreement, con­
who declared that he had never is at present Chief Inspector of younger city business men
nections with Japan, loyalty to
seen one Nisei pupil fail in his Schools in the Cranbrook dist­ Thursday last week, the JCCL
Canada, fishing and economic,
or her entrance exams. There rict.
secretary outlined the begin­ competition and religion.
was Mr. T. A. Brough who
Other speakers included the nings and development of the
Members voted to invite pubcommended the young Japan­ Japanese Consul, Mr. K. Na­ Japanese community, and
ese for their desire to share in kauchi, Mr. O. A. Thomas, sketched out the most import­ lic men, who have been active
YAMA TAXI
the building of Canada. Mr. principal before Mr. Patterson, ant issues of the moment. The | in anti-Japanese movements,
SE 1414
H- E. Patterson, the present
now Inspector of City proper solution to the prob-1 to speak, in order to J^est^
and
lem, he declared, is very large-them regarding their stand.
principal
re-iterated
the
“
STRATHCONA,
”
P5
See
thoughts of the previous speak-

Junior

Board of Trade Studies Japanese Question

THE NEW CANADIAN
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Unity
THE report submitted by the com' mittee which investigated the I
Japanese situation in British Colum­
bia a short time ago will, with excep­
tions for minor details, find favour
with the majority of reasonable, fairminded people both in the Occidental
and Japanese communities.
On the one hand it will bring as­
surance to our fellow Canadians that
so much of the fear and suspicion al­
ready aroused is as baseless and
groundless as we have always con­
tended it to be. On the other hand,
it will go far toward soothing the
ruffled feelings' of Japanese Cana­
dians, roused in recent months to a
high pitch of resentment over unjusti­
fied attacks. Altogether, the committee’s report may well be> considered a
valuable contribution to the cause of
Canadian unity, and in that way a
necessary and vital contribution to
the most efficient prosecution of the

x ~ may be in the ordinary events of
the national scene in Canada, there
will not be one of us who can afford
to pass by without sober thought the
estimates which Finance Minister
Ilsley placed before the House of Com­
mons on Tuesday.

No matter how pre-occupied we
may be with our “right little, tight
little” community, a situation as stag­
gering as that which Mr. Ilsley pre­
sented cannot but come home to us,
especially when it is presented in as
simple language as this—that out of
every one dollar that we earn, over 50
cents must find: its way back to gov­
ernment channels. And 32 cents of
that will go toward the war effort.

Admittedly it may be true that the
portion of the national income re­
ceived by some 6000 gainfully-em­
ployed Japanese Canadians is an in­
significant part of the national total.
And it is equally true that the stand­
ard of living in our community has
never been noted for the range or
variety of luxuries it provided.
But the provision of the SI,200,000,000 deficit between government in­
come and expenditure will not be met
simply by the elimination of certain
luxuries by the more well-to-do sec­
tion of the population. Rather the cost
of the war must be borne by the great
bulk of the people—by every man,
woman and child in Canada, if’infla­
tion is to be avoided. That means es­
sentially a reduction in personal liv­
ing standards to rock bottom, a
whole series of entirely unprecedented
sacrifices on the part of all of us.

The Federal Government, more­
over, has acted with commendable
promptness to implement the recom­
mendations. Early last month, the
Prime Minister, in announcing the
Special Registration of all Japanese
Canadians, made public his Govern­
ment’s belief in the loyalty of our
group. Arrangements for registration,
too, are already under way; and
wisely have been left in the hands of
an organized body, best qualified to
Certainly there is. no justification
carry out the job at minimum ex­
for a delay on the part of Japanese
pense,
Canadians, as well as on the part of
every other Canadian, to consider se­
It it -perhaps particularly fortunate
riously how savings, both individually
for Japanese Canadians that these
and corporately, are to be effected.
developments have come at a time
And
the first thing that we can do is
■when mounting tension continues to
to eliminate certain obviously waste­
disturb the calm of the Pacific Area.
ful and useless expenditure in our
Despite Japan’s declaration that she
own community.
intends no overt or’ hostile move in
the south-western Pacific, there is a
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very widespread conviction in Canada
And then there’s the story of the middleand the Empire that some such move l
will be made to coincide with an exaged Japanese who one Sunday afternoon
German
thrust
at
pected
Great
visited the grave of a friend who had passed
Britain in early spring.
away not long before. He mumbled a short
But despite such mounting teninaudible prayer and then placed some rice
sion, Japanese Canadians may well
cakes on the grave.
be said to have won a great victory
Two colored gentlemen. who were placing
in their own country. No matter
some flowers on a friend’s grave nearby,
what further complications may de­
watched the Japanese with mild curiosity.
velop in the Pacific, the means by
The two crossed over to where the Japanese
which we have achieved that vic­
was standing with head bowed, and one of
tory must continue to be the guide
them asked:
posts of all our activity. That, es­
sentially consists for the moment at
“When do you think your friend will
least, of carrying on as law-abiding,
come up and eat the rice?’’
socially and productively useful
The Japanese man looked up and. withcitizens, who will lend the strength
our a trace of a smile, quickly replied:
of their bodies and the strength of
their hearts and minds to the myriad
“All same time your friend come up and
tasks of service "which Canada’s war
smell' the flowers.”
machine demands.
Mr. Ilsley, in his budget speech,
WINTRY GRATITUDE
made it plain that the diversion of
one-third the national income toward
1 give thanks: to orchards, wide
war purposes will impose continuing
with fruit from summer's countryside.
greater sacrifcies upon the entire
body of the people. For all that,
I glue thanks, to meadows, sweet
exsiting and future burdens will find
with pressed'blooms, never pressed by feet.
no more /willing shoulders to bear
them in Canada than in the Japanese
I give thanks: to autumn weather,
community, whose members now can
and this', the lovely farewell feather.
feel that they can look to Canada, to
its responsible government and res­
I give thanks: my grate is lit:
ponsible citizenry, for understanding,
sympathy and protection — for all
1 ve wintry days when I may sit
those elements which inspire the love
the whole year round, be part of it.
and loyalty of a native son for his
native country.

ss & ke? I
Sir: I "would just like to say I appreci­
ate the constant note of encourage­
ment, hope and challenge that runs
through your editorials. I am sure
editorials and contributed articles are
a real help to your fellow Nisei as
they face the problems of these days.
I myself find them very stimulating.
Vancouver, B. C.

—Barbara Baker.

Editor, The New Canadian—Dear
Sir: Cheer up, Nisei!
According to Aiderman Wilson vou
are increasing in population five
times as fast as the so-called “white”
people.
It may be the Creator is disgusted
with the white people and is giving
us more peaceful penetrators and less
persecuting politicians.
And so. to Hal with Holy Hal,
He’s not had my vote
And never shall.
If he goes to Heaven with the
“better” folks,
I’ll be halswhere with the other
blokes.
‘Englishwoman
City.

Editor, The New Canadian—Dear
Sir: Copies of the following letter
were sent to the Sun and Province
but- so far as I know have not been
published:
To His Worship and City Council,
Vancouver, B. C.
Are you going to establish Hitler­
ism at the City Hall with all - its
brutality and cruel persecutions?
Are you going to denounce the
slogan of “British Fair Play and Free­
dom”?
Are you going to build up minority
groups—Balkan groups—the nucleus
of a fifth column?
Are you determined to wreck Can­
ada from within by creating racial
bitterness?
Are you going to nourish here those
things which the cream of Canadian
manhood is trying to destroy over the
seas?

Have we no heart—no gratitude—
no chivalry—no manhood worthy of
the name, within the precincts of the
City Hall?
If you have, then take your heads
out of the sand and do something
about it!
Here we have Orientals of foreign
birth, . Orientals of Canadian birth,
Italians from spaghetti-land and their
Canadian offspring all pledging their
loyalty to the cause of freedom, giv­
ing of their wealth and doing all any
human being is capable of doing to
assure us of their sincerity and
loyalty.
Yet in the face of all this, you sit
there, aiding and abetting the forces
of disunity, which threaten to break
us asundei*
forces which Hitler
would be glad to bestow upon — the
Iron Cross — the double cross.
All this is going on in our lovely
City Hall, while the forces of progress
and decency, on the outside are bend­
ing every effort to build up the
sinews of war—Save and Lend—give
till it hurts! — Help destroy Hitler
and usher in the millenium—Peace
and Goodwill among men.
It’s an anomaly, Your Worship.—
It’s a slur upon everything that’s

the Eos

J am an American.
I am both proud
Of ‘het
privilege.
( I am proud because
American means that I
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the best country on ea^1-' j Vln= h
because being an AmScan^^
that I can count my ble<sin^ ;
of my misfortunes.
-^stead
Heie my ballot is louder
sabre rattling of dictators I
meat on my table at dinner
e
all the butter I want on my ^^
Here I can listen to whatever I hi-;
A1^ ra^o and openly diw ?
atfairs of my government over V
backyard fence with mv next
neighbour frankly and
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A knock at the door doesn’t send
shivers running up and down mA
spine, nor does the shrill whistle of
a siien send me scurrying for the
nearest bomb shelter. I have neve
3een kicked into the gutter or
thrown into jail, just because some­
one didn’t happen to like the color
of my skin, or the slant of mv eYes
or the shape of my cheek bones. ’

Neither have I heard of anybody
starving in concentration camps over
here.
Our streets still ring with the
merry laughter of children at plav.
They do not have to shoulder guns
from infancy, or be put to work in
factories doing the work of grown­
up men due to the shortage of adult
labour.
They can laugh and play and sing
So can I.

I can attend motion picture shows
any time I wish. I can hold or go to
any meeting at will. I can state my
views and beliefs honestly and sin­
cerely without having to fear a tap
on my shoulder from a member of
the secret police.
My flower beds or backyard gar­
den have not been dug up to make
bomb-proof shelters, or black cloth
draped over my windows, or sand­
bags piled high on my front porch.
I do not have to work or sleep
with one eye on the sky and one
ear cocked for air raid warnings.
I . do not have to live in constant
dread of a bomb ripping my house
and killing or maiming my loved
ones.
No, there hasn’t even been a black­
out here in America.
I envy no other" people or other
form of government, for I know I am
. living in the best place on earth. My
democratic government is the envy
of the world.
My government is not perfect. It
has its defects. It has its graft, its
corruption, its failings. But with all
its. defects and its shortcomings, it
still remains the best form of govern­
ment ever devised by man.
That is my country. But with all
that, my God is still mightier than
my country or my government.
That is a comforting thought.
Yes, I am an American, and I am
proud that I am an American.
And as an American, I will hold
fast to faith in my country, protect
and defend it, and never forget that
I am an American.
good.

You can do better than that.

GOD SAVE THE KING!
—Col. H. E. Lyon.
Cambie Station.

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THE NEW CANADIAN
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Marketing Control

tony kobayashi
NO ICE! Many moons have passed, and much
WHAl- * a under the bridge since Ye Ogopogo whipped
® M1 St«e voice to the doings of Nisei Okanaganites.
Ms T “iwather. Silks (the war excuse is getting stale
“T™? whem oh where, is the winter with its ice and
"
SLwiW weather in February hints too strongly of
snow ®l/, blitzkrieg later on, but he had better be on
,A‘t bein« blitzkrieged by the many who purchased
Skiing club tickets!
errs DANCE. Gaiety prevailed at the Kelowna
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wS xvhen the Kelowna Nisei Club were hosts at
Japanese Ha x
rtv and dance. Sixty Niseis from Kela u alean? Okanagan Centre gathered for Central Okanagan
^wna, , ... ^o-ef-together.”
the °-enial Master of Ceremonies Eddie Yoshioka,
I
Le Zb d a ‘bang-up” time playing games, and later
^e cr°^ he strains of Glen Miller, Sammy Kaye, and all
^nC5 Of the -Wing and sweet aggregations that played over
£ Win CenTre" Radio and Electric’s sound system.

Red Cross Unit
SURREY.—Under the aus­
pices of the Surrey and Port
Mann Farmers’ Associations,
the second operating’ unit of
the Canadian Red Cross So­
ciety with an all-Japanese
membership was organized
here last week as a unit of
the Cloverdale Branch.
At a general organizational
meeting of local men and
women, assisted by officers
of the Cloverdale Branch,
Mrs. S. Nishioka of Port
Mann was named president.
Assisting her on the exec­
utive are Mr. A. Sato, vicepresident; Miss Lucy Tsumu­
ra, secretary; Mrs. Z. Inou­
ye, treasurer; Miss Hideko
Maruno, knitting supervisor;
and Mrs. J. Nakamura, sew­
ing supervisor.
Mrs. Barr, Cloverdale
Branch president, expressed
congratulations to the new
Unit, and expressed best
wishes for its utmost success
in its present war work, as
well as in the peace to fol­
low.

of the poultry industry was
submitted to a meeting last
Friday night, by Prof. E. A.
Lloyd, head of the depart­
ment of poultry husbandry
at U.B.C., when producers
This graphic presentation I met to consider the report of
a committee set up to tackle
the situation for the farmers.
East Hicho-Chats

CLOVERDALE. — The aver­
age cost of production of eggs?
in the Fraser Valley is 25c per j
dozen, while the average return;
to the producer is only 16c.
;

Harry Naganobu of NaganoDance Successful . . J bu Bros. is a Nisei member of
o
i
^Fthe committee, acting on beSch°o1 ,an^
of the numerous Japanese
take this opportunity to thank;
in the Fraser Valley.
all you folks who helped make/ „
,
,
our Valentine Dance in aid oft
Proposals submitted ^t Lie
the school library such a sue- meeting included a submits o^
cess
to the government to estabiisn
a marketing board with power
In fact if I may exaggerate
marketing regula‘
A goodwill address was. given during the evening by
a little, it was so successful
;
vnehioka of the United Church Mission. Grand rethat there was standing room
It was stressed, however,
were served by the girls of the Club, and at a late
only. And the large number of
'SSpy coupks rductantiy swayed to the strains of the
Japanese Canadians who turn­ that the situation could be met
ed out was especially gratify­ only through close and active
Home Waltz.
co-operation with established
ing.
E
another NISEI VENTURE.
Tony Kobayashi, authorwholesale
dealers in the local
Almost 50 per cent of the
■ A-adiotrician, has opened the Win-Centre Radio and Elec
people were Japanese young market.
•Me selling and servicing radios and all electrical appliances.
people, who joined in the fund
The committee is continuing
■ ’ the Japanese community, he is specializing in improved
enthusiastically
with
Occiden
­
its
meetings to bring down a
tet-wave reception and better reproduction of recotded
tal
friends,
to
make
this
gath
­
music He is a graduate of the National Radio Institute, and
plan of action.
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ering the biggest and best yet.
for” Ilie past three years has been selling and servicing for
Anthony and his Rag Time selling at 15c each, or 2 for
leading stores.
25c. These are obtainable from
Band supplied the music
4U REVOIR
The moon is rising over the Lake now,
club members. Come on, folks,
Raffle Tickets ...
■co ’tis time for me to say, “Au Revoir” again but while its
Acme Angles
get yours now. There are ten
The local JCCL Baseball
: rave are so bright, I’ll swim up and down rhe Valley, searchvaluable prizes, to be drawn
By S. F.
Club is endeavouring to raise
dngwt more news of the Okanagan, and this time, I won t let
for on April 12.
general meeting of the funds by means of raffle tickets
■niany moons pass! ____________ ________————=====
Sea Island JCCL was held
February 7, under the chair­
Maple Ridge JCCL
manship of Yoneichi Maede. Capital City Chatter
The main purpose of the meet­
ing was to outline a program
of activity for the year.
VICTORIA. — Highlighting I Terry’s. Much credit for the
numbers.
All the women residents of
HANEY.—A galaxy of top- dance
success of this undertaking
Sea Island are meeting regu­ the winter activities of the club, goes to the jnewly-elected so­
notch Nisei stars, assuring the Amateur Champion
Among the soloists are Lily larly twice a month at the the Taiyo Club staged their an­
I best in entertainment, will apcial committee, Michico Oka­
i pear on the stage of the Agri­ Ide, Katie Oyama, recent cham­ Acme Hall to carry on with nual social at the home of Mrs. moto, Muneb Kawasoe and
B. Kuwabara last Friday eve­
cultural Hall -here, when the pionship winner in the Nisei sewing, knitting, etc. in aid of
George Kuwata.
Talent
Revue,
and
Sam
Yama
­
ning.
the Canadian Red Cross.
' Maple Ridge-Pitt
Meadows
The date for the February
Fun and laughs galore—with
chapter’ of the JCCL presents a da of trumpet fame.
About a week of hard labour
Mr. Y. Abe, too, will offer on the part of the members has table tennis, Chinese checkers, meeting of the chapter has
Nisei concert, Saturday evecomic relief with one of his finally resulted in nine splen­ target shoot, banana and ci ack­ been set for Friday, the 28th,
i ning, March 1.
President Doug Oike, who justly famous comic mono­ did new tables, to be used for er-eating contests, bingo and a at 8:15.
*
*
*
is arranging the program, is logues.
Red Cross work and -at social quiz.contest—and a grand sitVagaries: Here’s one for the
Local talent will round out affairs. Special mention in this down banquet—were dished up
all smiles over the-number
books
—It has been brought to
the
program,
including
for
by
the
hard-working
commit
­
of artists who will give their
connection should be made of
our
notice
that a young buck
tee
of
three,
Muneo
Kawasoe,
instance,
that
accordion
duo
services to make the concert
Toshitsugu
Koyanagi,
who
of
our
acquaintance
kept his
who
made
such
a
hit
at
the
Tsutomu
Shimizu
and
Tsutomu
the biggest and best in Val­
gave so much of his time as
“
date
”
waiting
(she
had
called
Talent Revue, Tsutomu OdaOkamoto.
ley history.
chief carpenter.
for
him,
too)
while
he
took
a
Among these are the girls of mura and Happy Kawamoto.
Thanks of the club are exleisurely
bath
and
spruced
up
Several
Steveston
artists,
; the Vancouver Kitsilano dance
tended to Misses Alice, Ruth
Acme Angles ...
for the dance—wonder how he
too,
are
expected
to
contribute
; troupe who will be seen in a
The club wishes to acknowl­ and Mr. Shigeto Kuwabara, gets away with it . . . By the
to
the
program.
; number of specially arranged
edge with thanks donations for their able assistance and way, you should get Jackie to
from Mr. Harry Fukushima in also to 'Mrs. S. loi, Mrs. B. Ku­ tell you about his ice cream
commemoration of his mar­ wabara and George Hasegawa special 1— “3 men in a boat
Steveston Static
riage, and likewise from Mr. for their kind donations of smothered in onions ... Lost:
DELICIOUS CHINESE DISHES
A miscellaneous shower will be and Mrs. Takao Teshima for fruit and cake.
a blue sweatshirt — finder
in our newly-decorated
held on Thursday, Feb. 20. at the the same reason.
please return to Jimmie Shimi­
and enlarged premises
Steveston. United Church for Miss
My! My! but things are quiet Red Cross Work
zu and collect reward.
Hatsuye Murakami, who a week down at the west end of the
The girls of . the Victoria J.
later will become the bride of Mr. cannery these days. You can C. C. L. have organized a knit­
Jiro Kosaka of Vancouver Cannery. hardly see anyone strolling ting group and, having set
The wedding will be solemnized at about on week days. Poor fel­ Miarch 6 as the deadline to
the Powell United Church.
lows, have to meet in the hall hand in their first sets batch
Steveston
Nisei
girls
are
urged
to
to
do some studying, tsk! tsk! of garments to the Red Cross,
SEymour 5774
turn out to the next local Red Cross Oh, well, there’s still Sunday are well on their way toward
252 Powell
meeting. Tuesday, Feb. 25 at one night and Saturday night . . . that end.
o’clock.
By the way, I hear someone’s
Those helping are: Toshiko
been using a rather good tech­ Hasegawa,-Yaeko Henmi, Aiko
nique lately, I just “wonder and Fumiko Kondo, Sumiye
"QUALITY, ECONOMY AND SERVICE"
who?”
Onishi, Mary Hoita, Fumiko
Shimizu, Marion and Mary Yo­
neda, Mikiko Yamamoto, Mit­
Specialists in
su Iwasaki, Haruco and Michico Okamoto, Yukie loi and To­
Shipbuilding
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Valentine Dance
The first event on the 1941
social calendar of the chapter
was a gay Valentine dance, held
Feb. 17, in the Rose Room at |

MArine 9925
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FEBRUARY 21, 194]
^Calendar
FEBRUARY

Superb Acting Promised In Two Pb

—International Basketball Game
"To teach merely what is reauired in the curri i
and Dance, Exhibition Gardens,
7 p.m.
to accept a salary—is this the sole aim of a teacher
. ’^
—Annual Judo Tournament, Jap­
with
the
minds
and
hearts
of
little
children?
”
Such
•
^
^^
Kokonoye Kai Elections
I
Nir-, and Mrs. Shinobu, are the
anese Hall.
question raised in “Seinaru Michi,” a three-act iStheviy
23—Basketball Banquet. Fuji,
Mr. K. Gondo was again elected haishakunins.
p.m.. 50c.
presented by the Rissho Seinenkai on March 1
to
president of the Kokonoye Kai at
At a betrothal ceremony on Thurs- 13—Red Cross Annual Meeting,
Hall, at 7 p.m.
4=====^5^
Xippon
Club,
3.00
p.m.
the election meeting held at Sun Pe- day, February 1 3, Rev. K. Shimizu
MAHCH
Boasting some of the most
kin on February 19. His able execu­ announced the engagement of Miss 1—Rissho Seinenkai Concert, Japtalented
and versatile players
anese Hall, 7.00 p.m.
tive is composed of the following June Ennyu, daughter bf Mr. and
1—Maple Ridge J.C.C.L. Concert, in the city, this ambitious and
Get
your
spring
members: Y. Hirano, vice-president, Mrs. S. Ennyu, 2124 Gravely St.,
Haney -Agricultural Hall, 7.30 moving drama is a revelation of
p.m.
Modiste's!
H. Nagatakiya, secretary, C. Oyagi, to Mr. Eichi Ashikawa of this
school life, and the relation of
Dt. and Mrs. Shimotakaha ra were 3—Hammond Farmers Baseball
The newer versions have lost
treasurer, N. Takada, chairman.
Club Skatefest, Happyland.
teacher
to pupil. Petite Irene severe mannish look which * A
the
go-betweens.
S
—
PoweH
Concert,
JapanBetrothals ...
Tsuchiya as “Fukao Sensei” havoc w.th the average Nisei £
ese Hall
Of interest to her wide circle of Valentine Party
16—Fairview YMBA Oratorical try and capable Joe Deshima as
Instead, a long-waisted slenrfp "
outs, Fairview Temple, 2 p.m’.
friends is the engagement of Miss
Mr. and Mrs. M. Masuda and
share the With shoulders gently ro^'J
C.G.I.T.-Tuxis Concert, Fowell “Hayashi Sensei”
Louise S. Tsuchiya, 881 Union Miss Lily Washimoto were joint 22—Church
Hall, 7.30 p.m., 25c.
at
-----------yc"1
burden of the acting, and
ana hA cut and moulded
Street, well-known local nurse, to hosts at the home of the latcer, 1286
times, they reach moments
of Lcket^hat111^^^' 9’ves the new
Mr. T. Isomura.
West 14th, to a gay party of friends
.
.
i C
•
•
great poignancy.
.' ’ Minine '«'■
on the evening of February 15.
. ClQSSICS and SWITIQ IF
Making the most of the minor an ./ - i1™ 3 ®hara has these in
Nisei Thespians
roles are Kathlyn Oka, Misa™. shad«.
There'. ,
EXPERT ADVISOR FOR
lovely model In golden beige-/
The
next
meeting
of the Nisei
ko
Kusunoki,
Kay
Sawa,
Mark
ki
YOUR FAMILY PROTECTION
kind that gives the Niseiette fi5^
Drama Club will be held on Thurs­
By Mark Toyama
Kobayashi, John Deshima, Su- that new
SEE
day, February 27, at Carleton Clay’s
Members of the Seiko-kai mi Sumida, and Shizue Kasaka. I
Sl!h°uettt
t
And
the beauty
of this particular ,2
studio, on Granville Street, com­ A.Y.P.A. were entertained and
“Toki no Ujigami,” the sec­ is that it 'belongs- with v0 J
mencing 8:15 p.m.
instructed at their last meeting ond feature on the programme year s pleated plaid skirt. '
All members pnd would-be mem­ when Yoshimitsu Higashi, of is a direct contrast to the forThe jacket is a practical
bers are requested to attend as plans The New Canadian, presented mer. It is a hilarious domestic
and di,.
AGENT
tinctive
“must” in eve,
are now in fu.i swing for the selec­ an evening of music. By means comedy with the famous Kikury up-to-date
Niseiette's wordrobe!
tion of the cast for the spring pre­
of records Mr. Higashi showed chi Kan touch—that ability of
sentation.

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borrowed from the masters, tions, some deep and abiding Rissho
Seinenkai in their
Alexandria Neighborhood. House
The members moved that truth of life.
Night of Japanese Music and
was the scene of a grand reunion of the Lenten Discussions take
Mark Kobayashi as the er- Drama” will be the following
old friends and new when the CosThe Ten Commandments” as ratio writer-husband, Misako artists: Lily Shishido, Fumiyo
mopolitan। Club sponsored a Valenthe topic and arrangements Kusunoki as the long-suffering Tanabe, Shizue Iwasaki Kinu
tine.. Party- on Saturday, February 15.
were made to hold the dis­ wife, and Kay Sawa as the run­ ye Sawa, Alice Watanabe, in
Mingling with the many aationalcussions at various homes.
away wife who comes to the vocal selections, and Roy Ku­
itics were: several Nisei undergrads
The A.Y.P.A. wishes to ack- home of the writer for assist­ mano with his harmonica.
| and gradu;ates.
nowledge with thanks three ance, makes the most of a de-

generous donations from the lightfully
A Bit of Old Japan
amusing
comedy
married
members, with poise and imagination.
A bit of old Japan was trans­ recently
planted to the Japanese Hall on Sat­ Mrs. S. Yakura (nee Sidi Su­
urday, February 15, when the Ryu- mi), Mrs. H. Fukushima (nee
bikai presented an evening of Classi­ Yoshiko Hirota) and Mr. Bob Hilarious Comedy
cal odoris before a capacity crowd. Murakami. Congratulations to
in Y.P. Concert
The Ryubikai- presentation will be the fortunate other halves of
When Pa and Ma turn the
remembered as one of the high spots the pairs.
tables on daughter and insist
in the cultural history of the city.
A panel discussion on “Canada 011 putting their offspring
Farr th etc’ Junior Church
Today
” will be the highlight of the theories on love and marriage
The Fairview United Church will
hold its Sunday service for Junior P°well T .P.S. meeting to be held iFlto practice, one of the funat thc niest situations ever witnessed
Church members on February 23, on Sunday, February
is promised the public by the
a.m.
‘‘Spiritual Powell Unitea.
commencing
I 1
eve
_
Powell
United Church Y.P.S. in
An
interesting
and
instructive
Longing” will be the theme of Mr.
prize - winning
Play:
Takashi Komiyama’s sermon. All ninS is promised io all members and their
“Heaven on Earth, on March
Nisei are cordially invited to attend. fricnds.
8, at the Japanese Hall.
Hompa Fireside Discussion
Powell Y.P.S.
For those who would weep
The Hompa Y.W.B.A. sponsored
rather
than laugh, Y.P.S. will
its first fireside discussion on Thursday, February 20, at 8 p.m., at the present a tragedy in .three
scenes, “Tsumi Naki Tsumi”—
home of Miss Kazuko Kagawa.
An invitation is extended to all a drama of a happy child,
growing up to young woman­
members and friends.
hood, only to be torn between
two loves—that of the woman
Judo Youth Organize who raised her from infancy
and that of the woman who
VANCOUVER.—Newly - or­ gave her birth.
ganized by the Vancouver KiWell known public favorites,
do-kan, judo club, is the “Sei- Lily Shishido, Katie Oyama,
ei-kai,” an organization of boys the Nicholson Sisters, Frank
and young men designed to fur­ Kumagai, will also lend their
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All seinen members are red
belt holders of the age of 16
and over are classed as mem­
bers automatically, and an in­
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fEBrUARY 21, 1941

THE NEW CANADIAN

REPORT"' Cont'd from Page 1

'Nisei Optometrist

Iled up for military train-

■
- -----------prive
person hostile to the Japan
e of a constant and effective
■ound for complaint, there should
■ a re-registration of the Japane population of British Columbia.

i Announces Opening

Creport of the committee.
supervise the carrying;
kRh included Lt.-Col. A.
of the foregoing re-i
of
Dr. H. L. Keenleyms as are adopted, and i
'"TUistant Commissioenr for the purpose of keeping the Gov-]
informed as to the Orien- i
Mead. R.C.M.P-, and Sir eminent
tai situation.
I
* Sansom. which mvesti9. The Government should issue
the situation at first hana a public statement designed, to re­
Kotre time contained the fol- assure the white population of E.C.
and at the same time explaining to ;
ten recommendations: the Japanese residents in that pro- i

L should be continued vigi- vince the advantages which will j
' ’
nobee to keep close watch accrue to them from the carrying i
iinC^Jof disloyal acts, while do- out of the measures proposed in I
’or
best to encourage Japan- this report.
|
co-operate with authorities
10. Provisions of the 1, 2, 3, 5, G. S I
Yyins Them informed on con- and 9th recommendations should I
in "the community.
be implementecMvith necessary al-1
“, Mihtary and police should bear teration of detail in the case of I
21

Optometrist

Announces the opening
of fully equipped
Optometric Offices
at

189 East Hastings Street

the importance of continu-

Another
VANCOUVER.
Hoars: 9:00 a.—5:30 p.m.
ambitious
Nisei
will
add his
,s’“ en'5 be taken to diminish anti
"Register"
Telephone: MArine 9815
name next Monday to the grow­
propaganda by appealing
^individuals and to the press on
ing list of second generation
(Continued from page 1)
ids of civil security and na2 defenses; and, it necessary, Hume declared that registra­ professional men in the comI.,
censorship.
munity — proof positive of our
‘4 co-operation of leaders of Jap- tion would be carried out in
coming of age.
community be enlisted.
the most practical manner
He is Henry K. Naruse,
t At least for the present, Canaof Japanese race should not possible, without fear or fa­
Steveston-born graduate of
be called up for military training. vour of any person, or with­
Busses League
Training of Japanese in the out any regard for politicals the College of Optometry at
COTC should continue at the disthe University of Toronto,
influence. He said he wasi who will open fully-equipped
Ation’of University authorities.
" That, for both purposes of sure that police officers andi
optometric offices at 189 E.
civil security and in order to dethe community would worki Hastings on February 24.
together as one unit.
The difficulties confronting work through the Japanese
Mr. Naruse brings to his proProtect Japanese
fession.
the most
advanced Bussei organizations in holding Canaadian Citizens League in­
Stress was laid by mem- ? . . . .
nrstead of setting up a separate
bers of the
Government; |ialrl1^?L
nartlcularlv in- their annual convention and
Committee that the resista- thopedics. He is particular, in the question of the formation body. The question was referred
terested in possibilities of cor- of a federation of all Nisei or­ to the incoming board. JCCL
tion was designed not mere­ rective treatment, and believes ganizations were discussed at officials will also be consulted.
H’Gh. 4567
ly as a check-up, but prin­ there is a very wide field in the fifteenth annual general
A special committee was
cipally to protect Japanese the Japanese community for general meeting of the Bussei formed to supervise the an­
1355 POWELL-ST
Canadians themselves. Once the extension of optometric League at the Kitsilano Temple nual oratorical contest.
an individual is provided
Sunday afternoon, February 16.
Takeo Kitamura was elected'
work.
'fWtWoWV.^.WiV.VASW^ with an identification card,
President of the Steveston
It was pointed out that one to head the League’s activities
J
YOSHINO
3 he will be able to go about Young People’s Society, Mr. the inajor difficulties facing for, the coming year.
his business with the least Naruse has been also active in the chapters with the excep­
amount of trouble.
WHEN ORDERING YOUR TOILET TISSUE.
the work of the J.C.C.A. He tion of Hompa and Steveston
“We want to put an end, was educated at Richmond was the lack of suitable ac­
ALWAYS SPECIFY
once for all, to all talk of High and at the University of commodation to handle large
J
362 ALEXANDER ^T.
illegal
entry,”
Commis­ B.C. before going to Toronto. convention crowds.
C
PHONE TRI- 0723
sioner F. J. Mead of the
Each chapter will take its
E.C.M.P. told the meeting.
IT IS SOFT. SANITARY & SOLUBLE
turn in sponsoring a conven­
“We are asking fox your Change of blame Law
tion, assume the responsibility
SMITH, DAVIDSON &
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co-operation to carry out
out a profram
of
mapping
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quietly, and with the least
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possible bother to ai^yfor ratification to the League’s
REFRIGERATORS
one?’ He urged that lead­ the community is directed to
Board of Directors.
ing citizens in. different new i*egulations now in foi ce
Views concerning the forma­
ARMSTRONG
areas
assume
responsi­ regarding the legal means of
SE ymour 4121
%
tion
of
a
federation
of
Nisei
or
­
bility for the loyal be­ changing one’s name.
s
and COMPANY
Under the Change of Name ganizations differed sharply. s
haviour of their group.
UNDERTAKERS
Lt.-Col. MacGregor Mac­ Act” enacted last December by Some thought that the Nisei
should
seek
to
co-ordinate
their
Government,
intosh, M.L.A., emphasized the Provincial
DO YOU KNOW
that the registration need not any person desiring to make
® That over half the quantity
be at all “painful,” and that any change, alteration or addi­
Red Cross Meet
of food you eat every day must
the sooner and smoother it tion in his name must apply for
s
be energy providing?
was done, the better for all permission to the Director of
Members of the Japan­
Established 1912
Vital Statistics in Victoria by
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concerned.
ese Canadian Red Cross
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Prof. H. F. Angus stressed filling out certain documents.
most digestible, and the best
Unit are again reminded
Persons, moreover, who
the desire of the committee
of all sustaining foods is Bread?
of the very important an­
in no way to trespass or to have changed their names
® That housekeeping
costs
nual general meeting be­
injure the feelings of loyal during the past twenty years
can be substantially reduced
ing held this forthcoming
must also report such change
Japanese Canadians.
by using more Bread at ail
Sunday, February 23, at
before March 6th, 1941.
Working Committee:
Canadian Japanese
meals?
the Nippon Club at 3
An alien under the act may
Present
at
the
conference
o’clock.
® That pound for
pound,
were the following represen­ not change his name while liv­
Association
compared with other energy
■ Officers for the coming
tatives, of whom the first ing in British Columbia after
foods, Bread is only one-sixth
year will be elected, and
five were chosen for the December 6, 1940.
Office Hours: 9:00-5:00
the cost?
other
important
business
working sub-committee: E.
Further
information
and
Saturday: 9:00-1:00
matters brought up for
Morii, A. Nishiguchi, _M. No­ necessary documentation may
Silver Cup Bread
discussion. Every member
TR 0072
guchi, Kunio Shimizu, T. be secured at the office of the
329 Gore
is
urgently
requested
to
Scientifically Approved
Shoyama, T. Umezuki, I. Ni- Canadian Japanese Association.
Vancouver, B. C.
attend.
shio, S. Takahashi, Y. Kawa­
ta, I. Hirayama, Dr. M. Miya­
"Strathcona"
zaki, T. Sato. Y. Higashi, S.
Maruno,
S.
Shinobu,
and
K.
205 Powell St.
MA 9517
(Continued from page 1)
Thrill to the Open Road ...
Shoji.
McLellan,
Schools, Miss
nurse at the school for eighteen
@ MOTOR TUNING with the KING TESTER
FLOWERS FOR EVERY OCCASION
long popular years, and Yoshi­
^ BRAKE RE-LINING with JOHNS-MANVILLE
mitsu Higashi, 1930 grad, who
Bouquets, Corsages, Plants
spoke on behalf of the former
at
Wreaths, Cut .Flowers
students.
Very Low Prices For Niseis
When the singing of “Auld
Lang Syne” and “The King”
brought down the curtain on
the re-union, ther e was no one
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and the leading man is wonderfu
“Anata, do nasu te? Fried eggs wa do desu?”

And Others

Spring Han Lef t Her Calling Card
There's a lilt in the air’. No crocuses, no snowdrops, no violets here,
but the shop windows are getting their first washing since the Christmas
rush', and the stalls are stocked with fresh local vegetables—lettuce green
and crisp that one can almost hear them snapping; green spring onions
with pearly ivory stalks, and really new potatoes that make the mouth
water in anticipation of boiled spuds smothered in btutcr. (And the
calories can go and take a back seat!)
The trees along the ball park are speckled with reddish-green tips,
and one can feel the sap running through the trunks into the bare branches
which have stood gaunt and spectre-like during the long .winter months.

There's a swing in the step of Powell Street people. Phe boy
who delivers the fish whistles a gayer tune: the girl who serves behind
the counter sports a more provocative lipstick, a more entrancing hair­
do, a more vivid sweater. More couples walk hand in hand. With
wonder in their eyes. School children have lost their bundled, coveredup look, and are showing pink knees under gay summery prints.
And the skipping rope has come into its own along the sidewalk.

There’s a restlessness stirring along Powell Street, unvoiced, un­
uttered, but felt. Spring, eternally young, eternally beautiful, makes us
dream dreams in our own special ways--- and each morning, the ambitious
promise themselves that “Today, they will do that which they have
planned and longed to accomplish all these years”; the discouraged look
out upon Powell Street, and seeing Powell Street awakening to new life,
turn with a rosy mist before their eyes; and the ordinary “we,” the com­
monfolk, with no claims to genius or to fame, forget our ups and downs,
and greedily gulping lungfuls of fresh spring air, are glad that we arc
alive.
Tes. Spring has found her way down into Powell Street, and
has left us her calling card.
*
*
*

A Bunch of Violets . . .
A bunch of short-stemmed violets, and I see . . . four little people,
just “twixt grown-up and childhood” . . . three girls and a boy . . .
awakening to an Easter holiday hike that is a cloudburst of rain . . .
the long, undaunted hike to Prospect Lake, with beans and bacon and
milk slung over their shoulders . . . on through the rain, laughing,
shouting, joking . . . singing “Marching along the highway, over the
road that’s wide” . . . clouds rolling away ... a rainbow in the sky . . .
a truck rolls up . . . “Want a lift, kids?” . . . “No, not us! We’re on
a hike!” . . . this with a proud lift of their heads, like some brave adven­
turers on a wonderful quest . . . noon . . . and the gnawing pangs of
hunger ... a fire on a little beach which seemed to have known that four
adventurers were coming . . . the smell of bacon . . . the cool drink . . .
lying on. the beach, gazing into the depths of the blue, blue sky. watching
the clouds go by ... a growl ... a fierce dog ... a scarecrow farmer's
"Clear off. can't ye see this here sign!” ... a mad scramble . . . back
on the road, breathing heavily . . . now along a railroad trellis, perched
dizzily between water and space . . . along a road, an old deserted school­
house, for hours and hours . . . dreaming and giving voice to courageous
dreams . . . two Niseis, a Canadian girl with steadfast grey eyes, and the
boy next door with the curly chestnut hair and the laughing blue eyes . . .
a future stenographer, a future playwright, a future nurse, and a future
aviator . . . brave young dreams . . . brave new world . . . then drcams
forgotten as far in the clearing, through the trees, lies glassy Prospect
Lake, quiet, dreaming . . . off went the shoes, for an hour of cooling
tired feet . . . running through the trails of the wood nearby . . . breath­
ing in the fresh spiciness of'pincs. the dampness of ankle-deep moss . . .
hoping for adventure . . . going out to meet adventure in some inexpress­
ible form . . . and there, in a little shadowed patch of leaves, a bunch of
short-stemmed violets and a handful of wild daffodils . . . and too soon,
the sun sinks behind the tree-tops, and the cool spring night comes on . . .
And now the four gay young adventurers are no longer just
twixt grown-up and childhood. ' It is Springtime now. but no
more can they go stngtng along the highway over an open road. Four
grown people, living in a practical world, living a practical life.
Fhetr gay brave dreams? No. they are not forgotten . . . they ai;e
whispered along the old railroad trellis by the breezes as they pass,
and by other gay young adventurers who answer the call of spring.

Strange, what a bunch of short-stemmed violets will cause a hardboiled columnist to write. But then, it s Spring!

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If you are married or plan to be.
as you very possiblv will do some
time in the future, here are a few
things which you might take into
consideration.
They are the results of Stanford
Professor Terman’s findings, which
might well be applicable to Nisei
who believe in Baishakunin's only
as formalities, or even as otherwise.

There are three requisites to hap­
piness:
fl) Character;
(2.) Personality;
(3) Background
of a
happy
home life during childhood.
Speaking of the harmonious per­
sonality factors, savant Terman, one
of America’s foremost psychologists
who has made interesting studies of
relative intelligence of Oriental and
Occidental children, arrived at these
conclusions:
A husband who is alert, shrewd,
and up-and-coming is likely to be
unhappy with a wife lacking these
qualities.
A wife is happier with a man
whom she believes superior.
The happiest couples are' those
who in their childhood were con­
servative. orderly, and not given
to emotional tantrums.
One of the major causes of
marital discord is the carelessness of
wives ’ about their appearance at
home.
Early marriage, petting, and the
length of time the husband and wife
knew each other before marriage . . .
none had much bearing on the suc­
cess or failure of the marriage.
Prudish women are poor matri­
monial risks.
Here is a point which Nisei might
find interesting. Dr. Terman claims
that physical compatibility is not
the all-important element in mar­
riage: rather a combination of the
three factors above is the more essen­
tial.
Some day. some . ambitious Nisei
scholar will find out what makes the
wheels go round in Nisei married
life. Until then trial and error will
make for happiness as well as for
moments of woe.

NEW PLOWING

Here is a field
Where grain will grow
In undulating
Row on row,

Usually, when Lily breaks into a patter of Japanese -;r’that she’s climbing onto her high horse, and then, she ■;- ' Z
pretty damn miserable—-unless you can think fast l;kc nr
lift.

"Darling, it’s swell!” I said. The pensive look on LT' '
*

"In fact. Eve never tasted fried eggs that were better"
was no reassuring smile. I kissed her. She refused to come dow
horse of hers. This time I was stumped.
Lily’s mouth was beginning to tremble. Then she sT :kind of low-like, “It’s no use. Yoshi, this is the
tomorrow.
,
"
Somehow I knew she wasn’t fooling. A
,
dead serious. There was no laughter lurking in the corner
"
“Look here. Lily, if it’s the amateur theatricals, fo^. A":
honey.”
’ ”“■“
She burst into tears. God. when Lily breaks down it’s lib
of Gibraltar falling down on the job. She knows I hatAY
seldom cries.
•
'
“Darling, tell me what's wrong.”
“lye nai, iye nai!” she sobbed, and she turned away fro.
avoiding my eyes.
I felt sick at the pit of my stomach—like when the bottom
out of everything. I grabbed my coat and went out into the niA
So it had come to this. “It's no use. Yoshi, this is the end" [’“
had said this. I walked down Elm Street toward the breakwater—B;1
where Lily and I used to walk---- a long time ago it seemed tome" ’ ^

"lye nai! Iye nai!” Lily had refused to tell me, but I kraDamn it. I knew it! Only I hadn’t wanted to face it And
cream world had collapsed.
Yeh. she rated something better than a white collar behind an ogj
desk. God knows there’s nothing, romantic about me—just a ehap uh
fell for something which wsan’t meant for me. It wasn’t that I w^
coward. It was only that I loved her and wanted her—laughing. inA
ativc, impetuous Lily!
She didn’t realize that spring'night a year ago what she was Am
up. Perhaps she did. too, only she thought I was a pretty wonderfully
I guess. It was there, just down the walk, a little ways past the light­
house. There was moonlight in her hair, and her eyes had been

I asked her. then, and when she turned toward me. the laughter wa
gone from her face. Wistful-like, she said to me. "Marriage demands so
much. We have to give up so much that we love . . . Then. "Yes, Yosbi,
if you want me.”
There had been an artistic guy who had been crazy about her—it
was a writer or somethnig. He'd written a play for her to star in.
remember the curtain call with Lily in filmy white, eye shining. Eta
clasped firmly in his, while the audience cheered their approval. I was
one of the audience.
And I hated amateur theatricals. Nothing more painful to warm
than an embryo Garbo trying to make a hit. No. I guess it was because
Lily seemed miles away.
Well, I decided to let her go—just as she wanted to.
“Yoshi, where have you been?” There was concern in her eyes.
By God, she was feeling sorry for me!
I wanted to say, “In hell,” but I said. “Just out.” Go easy. man.
I said to myself, it wouldn't do to break, down now. If you loved het,
you'd let her go . . .
'

“I guess you’ll want to leave right away.” My voice sounded life
a kitchem grater in action.
“Leave?” Then very softly. “Yoshi, look at me.” I don t knos
what she saw. but the next moment she was in my arms, convulsed wia
laughter.
“Yoshi, you didn’t . . . you didn't . . . ” Her slim figure shod
with laughter.

I must have looked kind of dumb, for she said, with her mouw
tender. "You idiot! 1 was only rehearsing my part for the play. Th
director said I wasn't 'punching’ the lines---- told me to try it on you.
I wasn’t getting this thing straight. Maybe I was crazy, but D
had said “Yoshi.”
“Yoshi, you nit-wit. is the hero of the play. If you’d listen to B
once in a while instead of poring over stocks and bonds, you d knows
thing or two."

And I shall love
It. beyond doubt.
But for today
Let me look out
Across the velvet
Parallel
Of this upturned
Good earth and smell

I held her close. Then, after a long while, she said. "Darling. L
going to star in another part. I know I can play it. And the leadings
is wonderful! You won't .mind?”
"I won't mind—as long as it makes you happy, dear. I <.ouiu^
risk losing Lily—came tod close to it. After all, a guy' gets used io hawa wife around.
"What part; this time, Lily?” I asked.

Its f reshness, musing
How fair a thing
A field is after
Fallowing.
—E.

V. E.

D'you know what she whispered in my car?

She whispered. I

the lead . . . that of your wife!”

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Shig Ashikawa is without the
east doubt the smoothest play■i' ever seen around these parts
md this scribe doesn't mean
EHeen Shintani Take Titles [maybe. Y’all should have seen
him turn on the pressure in
. Open Table Tennis Tournament the overtiipe period against the
All-Stars.
He
close last Saturday night at the Pender Bowling Intermediate
to
you
Director “Bing” Tanaka still remaining supreme broke through time and again,
for the thi d consecutive year to take permanent possession of whipped them in from "every
kcrwa Spring Suits
the Chuck Tanaka Trophy. Among the lady paddlers, Hompa’s position on the floor, hooping
and Topcoats, you s ladies' champion, . Eileen Shintani. whose cool and steady no less than 12 points in the
too ■will have that
stroking carried her over the rough spots to emerge champion scant five-minute overtime ses­
sion to cinch the game for Harout of a field of 13 girls.
Miss Shintani by no means jry’s all by himself. The final
Fl hand-tailored
enjoyed an easy night and had score after Ashikawa’s scoringi
to open up to the limit as her spree was 52-40, thereby giv­
tail.
Luxurious allevery opponent carried her to ing Harry’s once again undis­
wool fabrics, smart
puted lead in the league stand­
i a close three-set matches.
patterns and new
I
Tats Kagawa, long a strong ing.
Spring shades make
It was a close call for Har­
’
contender
for the New Pier
our clothes outstand­
ry’s, though. The All-Stars
r Cafe trophy, emblematic of
ing in every way.
were really clicking and they
I the junior championship, finV
checked hard, breaking up
i
ally
clinched
the
coveted
I1
When you see our
E<
the
smooth
machine-like
| trophy by setting back Faircomplete range, you
team-work
of
the
first-place
I
I veiw’s Ohashi, in four hotly
will know that Spring
team.
contested games. Defending
Trailing 32-24 at the start of
champion Tats Taguchi suf­
fered the biggest upset of the the last qurater, the younger
meet when Mush Uyesugi,. boys staged a fighting rally,
j another Fairview lad, dump- forging up level with the lead­
■ ed him out of the running in ers. With but a few seconds
left of the game, All-Stars were
i the second Tound.
actually winning by one bas­
New Doubles Champs
ket,
36-34, but rookie Tosh Ha­
i
Champion
Bing
Tanaka,
J pairing up with slamming Yoi- shimoto, who played a bang-up
; chi Yasui, made up an invin- game fox' Harry’s, shoved in
; cible duo as they breezed in a quickie to deadlock the game
for the senior doubles cham­ in the dying seconds.
STORES LIMITED
pionship. Meeting the defend­ Intermediates Struggle
I
ing champions, Yoshi Kozai
Ernie's and Nomads of the
BING TANAKA
and Yozy Yasui in the finals, Intermediates dished out one of
the new champs at times had to the most interesting games of
put on all the pressure but fin­ the season. It took the Nomads
Mi
ally won out with comfortable three full overtime periods to
margin. They dropped their finally down the ice ' cream
The vaunted greatness of the Steveston’s ladies’ double Kiyo point Kiyo Obokata and Sada­
third game 21-12 to the hard­ parlor boys, 44-38. Sakai Tsu­
Jowell Y.P.S. was shattered to Obokata and Sadako Iwasa and ko Iwasa took the count over
working defenders of the dou­ kamoto took the stellar role,
|mithereens last Monday night men’s doubles K. Ichino and Lily Ide and Kay Uyeno.
bles crown, but won their' sluicing in two quickies in the
Hind for the first time this sea- H. Hamade picked up the re­ Banter:
fourth
game, 21-16.
third overtime period to put
O where, O where have those
on they relinquished their po­ maining two games to spoil
In
the
junior
doubles,
repre
­
the game away fox' the Nomads.
sition on the top rung of the Strathcona’s hope for their ducky shorts gone? Remember
sented
by
only
four
duos,
last
Celtics
fared
well
with
Japanese Badminton League as long-awaited win.
last year when Mi Akiyama,
year
’
s
champs,
Koichi
Kamini
­
Steveston
until
the
third
quar
­
Rhey fell to the aggressive GaY.P.’s tie with Steveston Mat Matsui and other ranking shi and Tats Kagawa, repeated ter, then fell by the way side
gkuyukai squad, 6-3.
four weeks ago proved to be shuttiers sported those stun­ their- past performance and as
Steveston
sharpshooters'
| Trailing 5
games to
their turning point for they ning flimsies? It ain’t what it -took the title for the second found their range and breezed
haven’t hit their winning used to be’ . . . Lily Ide, the straight year. Their steady ahead to a 33-21 triumph.
1
form since. Their net shots shuttling blue singer, wondered playing was too much for the Steveston’s Dave Naruse took
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SUN NOM KING
fell short, their smashes went why her smashes fell short and erratic Yoshinaka-Yasui com­ the scoring honors with 10
out of bounds and all in all her playing was off form (so bination in the finals as they points.
their sparkling form at the she claims). On inspection of took the games two straight.
Chop Suey
Harry’s—Ashikawa. 20, Akiyama
10. Wakabayashi 4, Hori 8, Hashi­
start of the season has dis­ her racquet after the game she
moto 6. Yanagizawa 2, Onishi 2—52.
found out that she had been
SECOND ROUND
382 Powell
appeared completely.
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All-Stars—Sh i moda , J. Miike 8,
Senior Sing'les—Tanaka bt. Ouye
playing
with
a
broken
racquet.
Miike 12, Tokawa 6 .Fukumoto 6,
Jimmy Kumagai and Chiyo
21-10, 21-10; Kagawa.bt.' Yokoyama
iga 2. Takada -1—4 0.
.
.
.
Not
to
be
outdone
by
the
23-21;
Kozai
bt.
Tagu21-19,
Hyodo’s lone mixed double win
MatErnies—Umakoshi, :
chi 21 -1 2, 25-23; Iwaasaki bt. Tsuda
Shimoda 7, Arai 4, Sato 6—
from Kaichi Nagata and Ha­ Basketball League, Director 21-17. 21-17; Yasui bt. Ohashi 21-19,
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38.
ruko Maruno came after much Mat Matsui is contemplating 18-21, 21-19.
Nomads—Nakatani 8, Nishimura
Junior Singles—Uyesugi bt. Taguthe
loan
of
the
Exhibtiion
Gar
­
10, Ozaki 14, Tsukamoto 10, Mitsui
parrying back and forth with
I
(•hi
21.-12,
21-17;
Yoshinaka
bt.
Iso44.
the Y.P. duo copping the extra dens for their international shima 19-21, 21-1S. 21-18: Ohashi 2—
Mori 9, MiSteveston—
shuttle
meet
sometimes
in
bt. Tsuji 18-21, 21-12, 21-17.
point in a hard-fought deuce
ishita
5,
D
Ladies’ Singles—M. Mori bt. H
March, that is providing satis­
H. Mukai 7—33.
game.
21-9: E. Shintani bt. Y
Uno
Celtics—Kadonaga 4, Ichikawa
factory
arrangements
($)
can
-19,
17-21,
26-24;
S.
KaThe smart net playing by
xsaki 4, Miki 2, Minamimaye I.
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getsu bt. M. Yoshinaka 21-17, 21-15.
£
ano 6, T. Kano 2-—21.
Ichino combined with the bul­ be made. The Garden holds
THIRD ROUND
five
playing
courts.
Senior Sing’les—Tanaka bt. Ka­
let-like smashes of Hiroshi Ha­
g
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gawa 21-10. 21-12, 21-10: Yoshinaka
made was the wading point for
Men’s
Doubles—Maehida-Jiaika- bt. Nakatani 21-15, 21-13, 21-19;
the Strathconian victory as tv a vs. Arikado-Shim izu
and Kozai bt. Kaminishi 21-18, 20-22
21-9, 21-15 Yasui bt. Iwasaki 21-19
they trounced Mas Yatabe and
Arikado-Shimizu 16-21, and Fujioka- 21-11, 21Mas Toyota. For the deciding Ide 21-7.
Singles—Kaminishi
bt.
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Mixed Doubles—Sawada-R. Miya­
saki vs. Uyede-T. Ide 15-10. and
1 Kumagai-C. Hyodo 15-12; Nagata►
H. Maruno
Uyede-T. Ide 15-7,
Junior Sing’les—Kagawa bt. Oha­
and Kumagai-C. Hyodo 17-1 S.
SEMI-FINAL ROUND
Ladies’ Doubles—Haruko MartinoSenior Sing’les—Tanaka bt. Yosh­ shi 21-14, 17-21, 21-17, 21-19.
Ladies’ Sing’les—I. Shintani bt.
Rose Miyasaki
Teiko Ide-Chiyo inaka 23-21, 21-15, 21-17; Yasui bt.
M.
Mori 21-15, 15-21, 21-18.
Hyodo 12-15.
Kozai 21-17, 21-15, 22-20.
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Men’s Doubles—Nakade-K Nishi

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Kamino-Ono 11-21; Ichino-Hamade
vs. Toyota-Yatabe 21-13.
Mixed. Doubles—Ichino-K.
Obo­
kata vs. Yatabe-K. .Uyeno 10-15, and.
Toyota-Ide 5-15: Hamade-S. Iwasa
vs. Toyota-L. Ide 11-15, and YatabeK. Uyeno 15-S.
Ladies’ Doubles—K. Obokata-S.
Iwasa vs. L. Ide-K. Uyeno 15-8.
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FINAL ROUND
Yoshinaka 21-11, 19-21, 21-14; Oha­
Senior Sing’les—Tanaka bt. Yasui
shi bt. Nabata 21-18, 21-18: Naka­
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Canucks Set to Battle Invading Yankees on Maple Court and Ski Hil

STRATHCONAS JUST TIE WHEN LADY LUCK PROVES FICKLE
(Veteran Yamamura
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Sport
SPOTLiTf
Pilots Asahis Again

The Big Day” is almost here! trip.
At the annual meeting of the
To-morrow
will see a wholesale in­
Joe Akiyama who always se-Asahi Baseball Club held last
vasion
of
Americans.
Skiers from get hurt just before any bYY
Sunday at the New Pier Cafe,
Roy Yamamura, who has led Seattle, eagers and cagettes from suffered a twisted ankle j^
Tacoma---- close to 50 Wednesday's game
L
;
the team to many champion­ Fife and
ships during the past three sports enthusiasts from across the
years, was again elected to border• will grace our city:
manage the Nipponese diamond
The> final plug for the big cage
nine for the 1941 season.
event. Preparations have been comFresh and
Acting as business man­ pleted and all is in readiness for
ager again will be Frank Na­ the big show at the Exhibition
Delicious
kamura; Kiyoshi Suga, sec­ Gardens. Letter received last night
stated
that
the
Fife
Nippons
sueI
retary, and Rosie Okuda,
WEDDING CAKES
Basking in the warm spring sprained chest muscles. But all treasurer. Serving on the cessfully defended their Courier |
sun, the Fuji Skiers monopol­ in all everyone had a grand executive board will be Kaz League AA championship for the!
ized the Big Hill to themselves time in their last practice be­ Suga, Mike Maruno, Ken second consecutive year by down- j
Last Sunday. Boys rode on the fore the international tourna­ Kutsukake, Frank Shiraishi, ing Seattle Celtic's last Saturday!
ski tow as soon as it started and ment with the Rokka Club this George Shishido and Nag Ni­ night.
In March they will defend®
342 Powell St.
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kept on making the round trips Sunday.
their
Northwest
championship ini
shihara.
from the Gulley until it finally
As a result of the observ­
Following up the great suc­ Portland.
stopped for the day.
ance of last week’s perfor­ cess enjoyed “on the road” last
The local Nippons have been
Sitting around the drum mance the following: Fujis season, the famous Nipponese practicing industriously for the past For Shaving Comfort
stove, tired, sunburned and were picked for the team to nine plan to card many outside few weeks and should rhe breaks fa­
contented at the end of the day, meet the strong invaders games and will welcome any vor them, might even beat the
everyone had tall tales to tell. from the south: Frank Hata­ invitations from out-of-town Double Aye champs.
That cer­
Nearly everybody bore some naka, Otto Matsui, Jeep Ina- 4 communities.
tainly would call for a celebration
TTrwan
marks of the hazards of the moto, Tom Hatanaka, Bus |
Vancouver's style of play
A captain will be appointed then.
tricky spring snow. Frank Ha­ Ohori (captain) and either later to take over the manan- has changed and most of you will
tanaka, on his first trip down, Bob Yasui or Sam Hagino as erial duties during Manager be in for a mild surprise when you
took a nose-dive into a “man­ alternates.
Yamamura’s frequent absences see them whipping that ball around
The
prizes
at
stake
in
this
hole” and when his clubmates
like big-timers.
from town.
fished him out he was in a classic Annual Japanese Pacific
President Mi Akiyama is intent
on carrying things through in a big
semi-stupor with a swollen face Northwest Ski meet are the
and scratches. Unlucky Ko Ebi- Nishihama Challenge Cup, won J. T. & Fumi Deshima way and not do a lot of wishful
thinking.
For referees he has acsuzaki called it a day after- tak­ by the local planksters, two
Drop Vital Match quired the professional services of ® Strop, razor, blades in
ing a bad spill at the bottom of years in a row; the Toda Mem­
Basil Sands and Gummy Leach, ace
the Big Hill and suffered orial Cup won last year by
a compact, attractive bake­
“Lady Luck” stood smiling senior, league whistle-tooters .
Frank Hatanaka for his bril­
over
the
Nipponese
shuttiers
lite
case.
liant performance at Mount
Another thing that ought to add
and
prospects
for
another
home
­
Tims Teske Victoria Rainier last year; the Hama­ game victory were all in the a lot of class. The locals will trot IDEAL
gami Trophy for the winner of bag for the Strathcona bird- onto the floor with slick brand® for travel
Cage Loop Lead
the combined event and the paddlers
of
the
G.V.A.A. new warm-up jackets, pure white
© for gifts
VICTORIA.—With the lead­ Tanaka Cup donated by Tana­ League until Johnny Tanaka satin with red and blue trimmings.
ership of the Victoria Japanese ka Insurance Agency for the started missing, and the kind The roster of the classy Courier
Community Loop at stake, winning team which is also old lady stopped smiling. The champions include; Taxi. Kumimoto,
best the Japanese All-Stars coach; Yukio Kasai, captain; Shig
Tuxis Beavers and the Taiyo permanent.
Isamu
Uchida;
Tom
This Sunday, members and could do was wangle out a 8-8 Takeuchi;
Club
ballhandlers
battled
tie in their shuttle-meet with Osaka; Nobu Yoshida, Tom Take­
through forty hectic minutes of public must not go up to the the Die Hards.
mura; Jimmy Kubo and Dyke Itama, Sey. 7502
basketball last. Tuesday, with club cabin on Saturday night
399 Powell St.
Only one win was needed
manager.
Ben Yoshida, the starry
unless
they
possess
special
per
­
the Beavers emerging on top,
to give Strathcona’s the win
mits. The club house will be and Johnny Tanaka and Fumi Fife guard will not be making the
24-20.
Finding themselves on the reserved strictly for the visi­ Deshima, Strathcona’s highlyrated mixed duo failed to
short end of an 18-11 score tors.
On
Sunday,
however,
the/
come across with it. That
at the beginning of the final
much needed win was in
may
go
up
and
in
the
evening
canto, the Taiyo quintette
sight for them as they led
the
public
is
invited
to
attend
staged one of their character­
12-9 in the final “crucial”
a, social at the Fuji Chop Suey.
istic last-minute rallies and
match,
but their hot pace
The Rokkas are reaching
outscored the eventual win­
fizzled, and Die-Hard’s mix­
British Woollens
ners, 9-6—just two baskets Vancouver en masse late Fri­ ed pair Kline and Klein stead­
day night. Nineteen members ily forged up level and pas­
short of tieing the game.
For Spring
are making the trip. The girls, sed them to win the game as
Hide loi was top man for
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Photos Needed: Parents Register Children

VANCOUVER, B.C.—In an official statement today issued
bv the R.C.M.P. it was announced that registration of all m ividuals of Japanese origin would be carried out by the Ro) al
Canadian Mounted Police with headquarters for that puipo^
FEBRUARY 28, 1941.
at 805 West Hastings St., in Vancouver. Registration
commence on the morning of March 4, and offices will be open
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
In order to avoid conges­
tion, all persons requiring to
M.P's. Have Things be registered residing in the
area known as the West End,
west
of Granville. Street be­
To
Say
Concerning
I War Duties Prevent
United Church Y.P. Union
By Y. H.
tween Burrard Inlet and
Filling of Tokyo Post
Condemns Ghetto Plan
. False Creek, are required to
The Nisei
You hardly realise the littleness
register first.
Residents of
OTTAWA.
—
Prime
Minister
King
VANCOUVER.—City Council Slinsignificance of one person
other
areas
will
be notified
told
the
House
of
Commons
that
•rnst the innumerable two-legged lently left Aid. H. D. Wilson, inOTTAWA. — Prime Minister
when
to
register
by
a notice
/that cover the face of this stigator of the move for zoning he had been unable to fill the post King’s announcement regardthrough the Press.
p in spite of the claim of the Orientals out of Occidental residen- of Canadian minister to Japan, va­
ing Japanese registration procant
for
two
years,
because
some
of
While registration affects all
centalists to the contrary that tial areas to squirm Monday under
voked a verbal tiff on the part!
those
who
were
considered
suitable
of
, -cu| is worth more than all the the unanimous condemnation
of several British Columbia Japanese of the age of 16 and
-hes of the world put together. Vancouver's 50 United Church of had been needed for important war members in the House Tuesday over, details of children under
duties. Among these, he said, was
war front, stalwart fighting Canada congregations.
night, with Angus Maclnnis that age will be recorded by
Victor
Odium
of
VanMaj.-Gen.
their parents.
n are killed every day; here at ■
Aid. Wilson broke the silence to
the (C.C.F., Vancouver East) de­
officer commanding
couver,
no many civilian lives are blotted
All persons appearing for
move that the correspondence be
Gen. fending Japanese Canadians on
Division
overseas,
Second
L'the news is carried in the pa-.
registration
will be required to
broad
humanitarian
principles,
"received and filed.
The issue is
Odium was born in Japan.
people add their little say’, the
produce
Birth
Certificates, Na­
while A. W. Neill (Ind. Comoxnot now before us," he said, refer■
.
,i
The prime minister assured the Alberni) stoutly supported a turalization Certificates, Na­
family and relatives mourn, but the ---ring to the fact that the council had ■, House however that Canadian in­
-orld in general continues its daily
tional Registration Cards, Pass­
dropped the move as quickly as it ^eres^s in Japan were well looked policy of restriction and dis­
.unds unmindful of the tragedy.
ports or other documents which
crimination.
had taken it up at his request.
after
by
an
unusually
capable
charge
would be evidence of their legal
In fact, if anyone thinks himself imMr, King declared that
The Greater Vancouver Young d'affaires, D'Arcy McGreer.
ortant and indispensable, let him
some
Japanese
Canadians status in this country.
ie himself to the sick-bed and the People's Union declared that it
American Nisei Form
“are only too anxious to lend Two Photos Required
vacancy he has made in his daily could not “emphasize too strongly
All persons will also be re­
"Welfare Committee"
assistance to the Federal
environment will be like the splash that such motives are not in keep­
quired
to present two recent
Government in seeing that
SAN FRANCISCO. — With in­
ing with , the teachings of Christ."
of a stone on a pond
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photographs
of themselves, size
all Japanese are registered.
creasing tension between the U.S.
there'll be a ripple or two, then all
T/
?
X
1%
inches.
Such persons
and Japan, and with eyes of the They are rendering valuable
"Nisei of Year"
will be smooth again.
will
be
issued
a
registration
cer­
assistance to the government
public focused upon the Nisei, the
ideal
place
The sick-bed is the
Search has 24 Entrants
at the present time in this tificate to be carried at all times
National Japanese American Citi­
beard; but
not only
for
one's
on their person and this certi­
work.”
CHICAGO.—Some 24 Nisei in zens League announced the forma­
Noughts on the whys and where­
ficate will clearly indicate their
declared
that
tion of a "Welfare Committee"
Mr. ' Neill
fores of humankind will grow like the U.S., including writers scientists,
charged with the task of applying “whatever the opinion of the legal status.
weeds. And I've had a lot of time civic leaders, singers, dancers, stud- the American public with correct Prime Minister of of the govThe first Registration Office
to ponder on the ways of women. ents, social service workers and violwe
in
British
will
be opened in Vancouver
ernment
here,
information.
There's a little tyke at our place inists. have been entered in the
Function of the committee will Columbia are firmly convinced and persons concerned may
who in her lively moments is the search for the "Nisei of the Year be to launch an immediate survey that once a Jap always a Jap.” register there regardless of.
very epitome- of babyhood.
I am 1940," the Yamagata Award com­ of the dual citizenship and language Make Them Canadian
their place of residence. In due
Here she comes mittee announced on the closing
sick
Mr. Maclnnis said that the course it is intended to open
school questions.
paddling into my room on her date.
attitude of a “very few people” offices elsewhere in the Prov­
chubby fours, straighten every fibre
toward the Orientals in British ince for the registration of those
of her twenty-six inches and twentyColumbia was a “disgrace to who reside outside of Vanfive pounds alongside the bed, give
the people of Canada.” The। couver.
me her most cherubic and ingra­
Further information can be
Orientals were in Canada, and
tiating smile, a teasing laughter
they were Canadians, and they' secured by telephoning MArine
lights up her large and expressive
1855.
See “COMMONS,” Page 4.
brown eyes and plays on her dimpled
This
week
’
s
story
of
the
week
is
an
odd
one
in
a
way,
cheeks and roguish little mouth.
Then I know 1 am conquered.
I because it doesn’t deal with an outstanding news story in our
Jez pcs bi -A merica Students
lift the tot up onto the bed. Scarcely community at all. Rather, it’s just a collection, a medley con­
is she there than she scampers across cerning five different groups of Japanese Canadians in five
my prostrate form to the other side widely scattered points—but significantly to a nation at war,
of he bed where with a gurgle of one can sense a unifying, rhythmic tempo an imderlyin
joy she messes up my books and “motif,”- a scarlet thread of honor running thiough the
SEATTLE, Wash. — Fifty to fere with its success,” Presi­
pile of unanswered letters, and I?—— varying routine of the home fi ont.
sixty
Japanese students will dent L. P. Sieg of the Univer­
just a lump of long in the scramble.
And here are the brief facts:
arrive
in Seattle sometime dur­ sity of Washington, said.
Niseiettes I you had better look to
Port Alice—Employees of the B. C. Pulp and Paper Cm
ing the latter part of July to
“The conference is cer­
your laurels, or else the Sanseis will
here unanimously authorized the management to *« 'r™
attend
the
Eighth
Annual
Jap
­
tainly
a worthwhile instru­
be taking them away from you.
each monthly pay cheque a minimum sum o ?4, tU amount
anese-American Students’ Con­ ment for peace,” added Neil
Over a score of years ago I was each Japanese Canadian employee will subscribe to
ference to be held at the Uni­ Haig, president of the Asso­
just a baby so they tell me. Since savings certificates “for the duration.
_
,
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versity of Washington, it was ciated Students, “and Wash­
then Canada's summers and winters
Rovston.—Women of this small community, shaved
learned here last week.
ington has been honored by
have given me a goodly share of
theJr small housekeeping budgets still smaller last week,
Striking
a
sharp
note
of
con
­
its selection.”
members of the Bukkyo Fujinkai, shaved thur smaU bud­
their store of life, knowledge and
trast with the tense interna­
Before the Washington del­
experience.
gets still smaller last week and sen tj^ ihe Comox Fre^
tional scene, confirmation of
egation
of eight left for the
But a hard pillow, I found, is a
Press the sum of 550. inej asKea
,
the conference was received by
seventh
conference in Tokyo
the
Department
of
National
Defence
in
suppoit
of
the
war
9°od antidote for slobbery senti­
a special wire from Carl Ron­ last summer, President Sieg in­
ments. The realities of life swirled . effort.
ning, executive chairman of
.
eround me.
Out of the welter, I
Chemainus__ The Nisei community organization, the local the parley and Washington vited the conference to meet
here this year. A similar in­
came to the cold conclusion that IF JapaSlse Canadian Citizens League Chapter, staged a movie State senior.
vitation was extended by the
I had any self-respect I would stick night last week, and handed over the gross proceeds, S22.60
“Despite a further break Student Council at that time.
by Canada through thick and thin. to the local branch of the Canadian Red Cross.
in American-Japanese rela­
My first duties are to her; she is my
Tentative plans call for fifty
Vancouver.—A spur of the moment sale of war savings
tions, the Eighth Annual
mother. Accordingly, if I had any stamps at the regular meeting oof the Powell Y.P.S. went over
to
sixty Japanese students to
Conference will he held as
honest trace left in my character, to
S as members chipped in with their two-bit pieces which
arrive
in Seattle on July 29.
scheduled and we are pro­
her ] would serve unswerving loyalty. ^1 ° o towards nquMaton of the United Church of Canada
ceeding on that assumption, The visiting Nipponese will be
joined by approximately one
national debt through the purchase of war savings certificates.
Ronning declared.
hundred representatives from
Haney.—This Sunday, a top-notch program of Nisei en­ President’s Statement
universities
throughout
the
tertainment will be presented to a sold-out house. The pro­
“We are prepared to do our United States in eight days of
best and I am hopeful that cir­ round table discussions of po­
ceeds? To the Red Cross. $
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cumstances will be such that litical, social and economic
Prime Minister King has asked the. Japanese Canadian
at the time of the conference problems.
YAMA TAXI
community to serve in ways other than military service. Such
there will be nothing to inter­
SE 1414
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eekiy
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To A. W. NeilL M.P. and scm Reid- M.P.
gOME rather caustic comments con­
With due deference to his prestige,
cerning Canadians ^f Japanese
his nosition and his fossilization, the
origin were bandied about in the
editor of this weekly presumes to
House of Commons this week, in a
disagree. And with all respect to tne
manner to suggest that several Brit­
honourable members, he publicly
ish Columbia members of the House
challenges Mr. Neill and Mr. Reid
are still unprincipled politicians,
to an open debate to determine which
first, last and all the time.
proposition is the more valid: “Once
Mr. A. W. Neill, the honourable
a Japanese, always a Japanese,” or
member from Comox Alberni, was
“Once an Oriental-baiting politician,
once again the leading spirit in an always an Oriental-baiting politician.”
attack upon the quality of our loyalty
An agreement as to time, place or
and our Canadianism. With due assist­
conditions may be deferred until the
ance from his companion in preju­
honourable
members of the house
dice, Mr. Tom Reid from New-West­
have considered, with what means
minster, he sawed violently away at
they have at their disposal, some­
his favourite plank—one, by the way,
what more pressing problems of
that he has exploited to considerable
Canadian unity and the Canadian
advantage for many a year—“once
wai' effort.
a Jap, always a Jap.”

Community Co-operation in Registration
'THREE objectives have been set out
1
very clearly in the plan of the
Federal Government to register all
persons of Japanese origin in Canada.
First, from the point of view of the
Canadian public, the registration must
be efficient—comprehensive and allinclusive—if it is to be of any value
in restoring or stimulating the con­
fidence which our fellow citizens re­
pose in ourselves as loyal Canadians.
Second, from our point of view, it
should be carried out with the min­
imum pf inconvenience and expense
to the Japanese community, which is
accepting an admittedly discrimina­
tory act with good grace, because it
believes the plan to be the most ex­
pedient solution to a difficult situa­
tion.
Thirdly, the registration should be
carried out with the minimum of ex­
pense to the country itself, to save as
much as possible of our productive
energy for the war.

With these objectives in mind,
committees have been set up to en­
sure the maximum of co-operation
between the community and the
Federal Police. A working plan,
which has considered and taken
into account numerous submissions
concerning the many practical dif­
ficulties which are sure to arise, is
being formulated by police officers
and community representatives.

In the, final analysis, however, the
attainment of these three objectives
will depend upon the willing co­
operation of the people themselves.
Unless every individual and his fam­
ily complies with regulations reason­
ably and promptly, the whole work­
ing plan may bog down, with result­
ing serious effects upon all of us con­
cerned. It should be your personal
responsibility to yourself, your fam­
ily- your friends, your community and
youi' country to play your part well
in the forthcoming special registra­
tion.

An Open Letter to Joe Nisei
COMETIME, you know, all this antiJapanese talk in the papers does
get you down. Especially when it
comes from public men who you
think would have a little more intel­
ligence and common sense. I know
just how it feels, because I follow it
pretty carefully. At times, when this
person ’or that has pulled off some
extra raw stuff, I’ve been so mad I
could have cheerfully kicked his
teeth in! Those times I’ve thought to
myself. “Oh, what the hell’s the use
of trying to be a Canadian anyway?
British justice? Democracy? Baloney!”
But it’s a funny thing. Whenever I
get that feeling in the worst way.
something always happens to showme up for a blithering fool.
Usually it’s meeting and talking to
average, decent Canadians. And I’ve
had the pleasure of meeting and talk­
ing to a great many of them.
Really I think you’d be surprised

The New Canadian
TRinity 03 09
Vancouver, B. C.

A paper published by and for second gen­
eration Japanese in Canada, and deco ted to
their tcelfare as citizens of Canada.
Editorial Staff
Kunito T. Shoyama
Seiji Onizuka
Business Manager
Yoshimitsu Higashi
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to find out how many reasonable,
intelligent, fair-minded Canadians
there actually are. They’re anxious
.to learn our side of the question,
and they’ll listen to whatever you
have to say with sympathy and
tolerance.
If you go to them, point out how
the Japanese community has been
established here in Canada, what it’s
composed of, and how Canadian it is
actually becoming, they’ll listen to
you. And if you explain just why the
birth-rate has been high, or what
essential functions the Japanese lan­
guage school fulfills, or how economic,
social and political handicaps hold
the community down to a restricted
standard of living, they can see the
truth in your point of view. And if
you give them the straight facts about
dual nationality or our loyalty to
Canada, they’ll be willing to meet
you half-way.
Because so many of them do want
to be fair.'When they have no axes
to grind, except a sincere love of
country, they realize that no pos­
sible good will ever be accom­
plished by discrimination and re­
striction. They do believe in, and
want to see practised as far as
humanly possible, elemental prin­
ciples of justice and democracy.
And after meeting them, as I have,
you can’t help but feel that after' all
this Canada of ours, the Canada that
counts, isn’t a sorry mess of spout­
ing politicians, but a really big coun­
try that’s hard to beat.

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Rosy blushes for her cheeks,
Thus ... and so!
Pale, too pale, these many weeks.
Did you know?

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Thus . . . and so!

sit through two' hour^
symphony
Without ok
veloping a knack for’ Its
valuation: nor do I exp
musician to open his sen
to
a .continual blast of sw
tion. But Mr., and Mrs. A
should be able to take an
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late course. That is. they
—
to appreciate the good of
forms of music.
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Then arch her brows with pencil,
Thus . . . and so!
Two drops her eyes make deeper still.
Did you know?
Charming is her lovely face . . .
Ah. do not go!
Framed within that filmy lace,
She loces you so!
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“^ Reverie"
Larry CImton popularized Dew
sys original composition. ShnH^‘
“Moon Love,’^one of the m^
uskem nom xschaikowski’s Fifty
—Dana.
Symphony,” and “Our
love theme of the “FantasvAY^
ture to Romeo and Juliet.” renA? !
“Come Wmd,
placed this composer very
j
Come Weather™ ably in the realm of popular mtwy ’
And do you remember “On the
'
To those who thrilled to the psy­
of May”? It’s none other tin I
chological novel “Rebecca,” “Come
Techa ikowski’s “Andante C^J
Wind, Come Weather,” Daphne Du
lie” interpreted by Andre Eosid
Maurier’s latest book, comes as a dis­
anetz for the benefit of the “w
tinct shock-—a shock because it is un­
generation.
”
like anything she has ever written.
However
this tendency to “inter­
As one flips the 82 pages of “Come
Wind, Come Weather,” one meets pret” the classics has brought about]
with everyday, common people who disturbing consequences. The Boston!
are daily trying to live normally in Musical Societies have refused to" in­
an unnormal world. And one sees, clude these two composers on their
too, something of the moral fibre of musical programs because in their!
England’s people which has made it estimation, both Debussy and Tschaipossible for London _to “take it” kowski lack “objet d’art,” artistic
against heavy odds during almost merit to the layman.
eight months of terrific struggle.
Here you have a conventional
clique high-browing music according
To the people of the British Isles,
to their so-called artistic convictions!
this small book has a deep signifi­
As a rule these are the critics who
cance. Picture London on the eve
protest' at the latest trend toward
of August 15, 1940—with every
variation: a composer introduces a
man, woman and child tense, wait­
new adaptation personifying his in­
ing foi* the blow to fall. On this
dividuality,
and nine times out of ten
work day, “Come Wind, Come
he is going to be attacked or accused
Weather” came off the press, and
of being radically inclined!
to the troubled minds of England’s
vast population, it was a clarion
Beethoven in his time was tagged
“unconventional” by his contempo­
call, a challenge, an inspiration and
raries. Richard Wagner, whose music­
3j comfort! It became a sensation
scripts are filled with unsuppressed
overnight.
One cannot truthfully call Miss Du P^i°ns> suffered humiliation at the
start of his career. Igor Stravinski (a
Maurier’s latest work a great work.
contemporary by the way) who be­
To us, living in Canada, far from the
longs
to a class of impressionists, has
impact of the terrific struggle now
being waged, it is simply another col­ yet to acquaint himself with a goodly
lection of stories, written in a style portion of the musical world.
direct, void of any ornamentation,
A “new voice” is almost always
and woven around the authoress’ in­
apt to run into opposition. People
spirational belief that “the strength ,
unaccustomed to alien sounds re­
sent the change, simply because
of the nation is the morale of the
they do not possess the capacity for
people, and it is only when their
understanding. Toleration, it is said,
hearts fail them and they permit the
Fifth Column of Doubt, Suspicion.
is the most lovable and generous
Personal Safety, and most insidious
quality any human being can have
spy of all—Indifference — to invade
because it enables one to see things
the citadel, that the nation itself will
from another’s viewpoint. It is a
crumple.”
bigness that allows one to concede
Miss Du Maurier herself did not in­
to others the right to his own opin­
tend that this book be placed side by
ions and peculiarities.
side with her artistic achievement
Why should “popular”’ music be
Rebecca,” for in her own words, she condemned by intellectual snobs? Do
says. “These stories are not my own they forget that dancing is a major
creation. They are the true stories of form of social entertainment? And it
living men and women which I have is for this obvious reason hundreds
pieced together and put on paper in are occupied in supplying us with in­
the hopes that other men and other cidental music. Surely' you don't ex­
women
may take '’comfort from pect to waltz to Bach’s “Fugues,” or
them.” And this, Miss Du Maurier has “hobo” to Rhespigi’s “Fountains of
accomplished.
Rome.”
To those who have not acquired a
ONYX
taste, for so-called “classical ' music .
would suggest that they begin
The lake lay quiet, like black glass
something
familiar like Mendelssohn a
Except, near the shore, whispering
delightful
“Midsummer Nigh1 $
lace
Dream,
”
or
Dvorak's ••Humoresque.
Of phosphorescent white. Our oar
Explore the fields of program muMade tiny, trembling jewels as the
then branch out into the more absir
boat
for forms such as symphonies, s
Moved silently—
atas, concertos and chamber mU^ '
Drawing a silver path across
Rome
wasn’t built-in a day, nor ?
A jet black sea.
people
’
s tastes for classical music.
---- M. L.

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Englewood Edgings

ROYAL CITY CITINGS
Bu Staff Correspondent

! local Y.P.S. are again resumDo-So-Kai Doings .
New
faces
loom
up
to
fill
the
j fag the .^"^“'S
,
It's a pleasure i Yosh Terakita, captain;
i
Old Man Winter is just on
the
local!Teacher
on the fust and tnna
i* ^’ ^ent to readers.all; Obokata, secretary; and Toshi j his way out now and with; executive positions of
Sundays
of
each month.
rdeedjopr^
world a new iki. Kaga, treasurer.
I weather such as we’re having, Do-So-Kai.
Under the missionary conthe W with news of i
The team will endeavour to ।
ks as if Miss Spring is
At the 8th annual general
Kazuko
it’s i join a league on the Island, R>|here to stay . The fresh green meeting' on Jan. 31, Tsugio J venorship
of Miss
centre. This
■
meeting
ss ^^ skoot up again, and ‘Tobv- Shinohara was chosen j Ohashi, the regular
a°‘Sn of Coombs, a small show the rest of the Islanders;
"Seated in the big tim- how the diamond game should ; soon our beautiful wild flowers to head the staff as presi- I was held on February
Members of the society are
^ , tin Alberni Highway, be played
Nishiguchi, i
will gladden all hearts.
dent; Mitsuko
|
urged
to attend the Y. P. S.
half-way between ParksThat means softball again. Japanese secretary; • Kazuo I Youth Rally at the Oliver BapIwasa,
English
secretary;
V and Cameron Lake on
A very pretty wedding was and w e all hope tl
“'Ser Island,” according solemnized in the Coombs Jap-1 mgs, dull evenings and Sun- Kay Okihiro, treasurer, and I fist Church on Friday, FebruAkie Okihiro and Kazumi |kry 28 at 7:3 0 p.m.
S correspondent. Greetanese
Hall,
February
8,
by|Gavs
will
be
ovei.
Oliver
New
Westminster
."and salutations from all of
Shintani.
auditors.
Last
week
some
fifteen
new
­
Rev. Asaka of Royston, uniting
leadership, place to see and to enjoy the
\ air of vou. and Lorn all
Under the new
in marriage Ritsuko "Kay," comers were sent downtown
Y.P.S. Provincial Drama Fes■ vou to all of us, we’re sure.
again after working here for the club has swung into a full tival, March 1 at 7 p.m. Admis­
second
daughter
of
Mr.
and
may we hear of you
Mrs. Yoshida of Fanny Bay and only eleven days, due to rush round of activities.
sion by silver collection.
hen!)
*
Mr. Teiji “Bob” Masuda of orders. We didn’t even get to
On
February
16,
spring
know them, but better luck
Duncan.
cleaning
was
carried
out
at the
li'iniond Dust ...
.
A reception was held after next time, and hope we meet
Beavers Csnch Top
The Cameron Lake Logging
Do-So-Kai rendez-vbus. The
the ceremony in the hall, when again.
’o Baseball Team was organbusy hum of members, decked
Spot In Capital
At present to tell the truth,
zed with a business meeting about 150 guests were received,
with
pails
and brushes, paints
the gang here are doing noth­
February 6, with Yosh Te- including visitors from Van­
and oils; indicated the initial
Cage Loop
ing aiuilg
along social or club
activcouver. Port Alberni, Sunbury Illg
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4.
J
renovating
the
^kita in the chair. The foilowity lines. Since Christmas rush; step toward
By Staff Correspondent
L officers were
elected, Fanny Bay, Royston and Cum­
orders have kept us busy, but hall,
berland.
HOW THEY STAND
.j-^v Terakita,
manager;
r. tasks
now that the orders are out.
Later,
tasi- ' finished, thes^
skilful craftsmen were treated
W. L
I we may rest a little more
Dots and Dashes . . .
a
to a Hot Dog and Flamburger Beavers Miss Sachiko Shiraga, the easily.
6
dinner, prepared by such cap­ Taivos__
a
Spited City Chattel* Japanese school teacher, has
6
able members as the Misses JCCL __
left for Vancouver to visit her
By loni Cossippe
Grace Kai, Fay Iwasa, and Kay
Mission
Ping
Pong
VICTORIA.—Held to a 15father who is seriously ill in
Okihiro.
Ths Kikue Kawahara, whose the hospital.
all tie at half-time, an aggres­
Masaichi
Mende
from
are
members
Do-So-Kai
carriage to Mr. Y. Tominaga
Mr. and Mrs. Y. Murakami Haney triumphed at the Mis­ again assistin, their school on sive, youthful Beaver cage
jf Cowichan Lake will take
and family of Paldi have now sion Table Meet held, here on Graduation Day, March 23, squad went all-out to trim
place on March 8, was honored
the JCCL basketbailers 19taken‘up residence here, where February 16. Best performer and rehearsals for a modern
at a no-hostess surprise shower
Mr. Murakami is now em­ in the field, he was awarded play will begin this week. Sev­ 11 in the last half for a wellheld on February 24 at the
earned 34-26 victory in the
ployed by the Cameron Lake the first prize.
eral musical and vocal solos Victoria Japanese Commu­
home of Mrs. T. Yoneda.
Logging Co.
Second prize went to an­ are also listed as part of the nity League game played
On her arrival the bride-toYasuhiro Kaga sustained a other Haney lad, Makoto Ka­ program.
last week.
be was presented with a cor­
badly crushed finger in a log- wamoto.
sage bouquet of pink carna­
By their win, the Beavers,
Although Yutaka Ogawa Y.P.S., Bulletin ...
ging accident recently, Here’s
regardless
of the outcome of
tions.
Under the leadership of Rev.
wishing him a speedy recov- and Ken Sugimura of Mis­
The presents were tied to
the final league game being
sion tried hard, the Haney MacWilliams, members of the
streamers held in place by a ery.
this
week,
have
played
Major Yamada of the Salva- players were too clever for
Miniature bride standing on
top
spot
in
the
cinched
th
tion Army was a recent visitor them, and captured third and
top of a large, beautifully deco­
final
standings
and
will
now
Maple Ridge Brideand spoke to a gathering in the fourth prizes as well.
rated heart. The tea table cen­
mark time before playing
tred with heather was presid­ Japanese Hall.
the winner of the suddenElect Honored
ed over by Miss Aiko Kondo,
death semi-final, scheduled
Honouring
brides-to-be
Miss
Awhile the Misses Marion Yobetween Taiyos and JCCL on
BRITANNIA BITS
Yasuko
Kumamoto
and
Mat
­
ineda, Sumie Onishi, Mikiko
March 6.
the end of regulation time, the sue Hosaki, a farewell party
iYamamoto and Michico OkaBy Crusher
Beavers: T. Uyede 5, Y.
visiting team was leading 21- was held here on Sunday, Feb­
;mato assisted in serving.
Shimizu 15, Hide loi 10,
One-Act Play ...
20. All hope for a Britannia ruary 9. at the Maple Ridge Kuwabara, G. Uyede 2, P.
; During the afternoon games
On Friday evening a one-act
had practically van- Buddhist Temple.
of “Bingo” and “Pit” were play entitled “At the Edge of victory
Hasegawa 2. Total 34.
Suddenly
two
free
Lovely gifts were presented
much enjoyed, with prizes be­ the World” was put on by the ished.
JCCL: J. Shimizu 14, Stum
were awarded Bacon to the brides-elect, Miss T. Mi­
ing won by Miss Fumiko Kon­ Explorer girls and smaller girls throws
5
Shimizu
4, G. Kuwata, Sty
team. Can you shima making the presentation
for the home
---do and Miss Yukiye loi.
loi 8, Muneo Kawasoe, M.
not yet attending school. The just imagine the tumultuous
for the Y.M.B.A., and Mr. I.
Okamoto. Total 26.
huge success of the play goes
;
■p I uproar, with the High School Ishikawa
for
the
Sunday
Vagaries: Most of the young to the following: Miss D.
’ section making up in volume School teachers. Presentations,
fellas hereabouts have been Hunter in charge of the play
what they lacked in tune! Then, too, were made by the Y.M.B.A.
putting in all their spare eve­ with the assistance of Mrs. E.
nings lately in getting their McKee and Mrs. F. Hoover;. abrupt silence.
An enjoyable time was had
Bacon takes a deep breath by all, and farewells were sung
fishing tackle ready for the Mrs. N. McLeod, pianist; Mr. ‘
Fresh and
opening onslaught on ye elus­ C Watson, lighting; and Mr. and slowly tosses the ball. It to the tune of “Auld Lang
misses.
The
hush
grows
Delicious
ive trout (especially those oh- R.
Blundell
and his Boy
Syne.”
deeper.
Bacon
is
obviously
so-big-ones that always man­ Scouts for selling the tickets.
WEDDING CAKES
age to get away), on March 1. The nroceeds will be sent to nervous, but with one last
YOSHINO
Take our advice, folks and the children in the bombed deep breath he relaxes and
throws
up ... up .. .
don’t listen to every “fish” areas in Britain.
and down through the hoop!
story you hear.
Maple Courts . . .
THE CROWD ROARS!
Saturday afternoon two bas5
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Inspired by the breaks, Ba­
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the city, Shaughnessy Heights con and Bogle go to town in
five minutes’ overtime to give
United and Stacy’s.
Playing against the High the home team a 27-23 verdict.
QUALITY, ECONOMY AND SERVICE"
School, Shaughnessy ran into Wotta game! Wotta game!
Stacy’s proved to be in a
some
tough
luck,
and
emerged
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on the short end of a 27-23 different class from Britan­
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count after an overtime period. nia All-Stars, walking over
With a minute to go before the home crew to the tune
of 52-25.
■IliiiliiSI
A dance held in gym immed­
groceries and provisions
iately after the game was much
enjoyed, with music supplied
FREE DELIVERY SERVICE
by the club p.a. amplifier. Sigger’s opinion of the dance was
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ese community which is play­ ing programs of other ^2
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Honouring the natives of Fu-.
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kuoka Prefecture who have! m^t, and those over 61 years j
ing an invaluable part in the ; carried on during the
'
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passed away in this counter, °‘ ^ge will be presented with
training and education of bet-(designed to meet the"
after laying the cornerstone! s0“vemr Slfts■Hammond Farmers Baseball
ter and finer men and women (differing age* groups
of
Club Skatefesu Happyland.
—
such
would
have
been
the
(plained.
From
&
Dre-scboT.?'
for a later generation to build I
Chairman at the memorial
S05 West Hastings St.
(impression of the Japanese; the
growing
chua' ° °'e'
upon, and paying a tribute to j service will be Don Sugiman,
Canadian soldiers who have' while Shige Okumura wiU pre­
-a.y.p.a. lenten Discussions, j United Church which observers j through graduated’denar^Y
Concert, Japan-(would have received at the j until full maturity
given up their lives in service ■ s^e ^ the “Keirokai.” Toshiko S—Powell 1
ese Hall.
(religious education meeting of(
Beginning with’the n 4
in the war, the Fukuoka Sei­ Hatanaka is in charge of en
.
(the
A.O.T.S.,
older
men
’
s
group
;
garten,
chJrch
de’
tertainment.
nenkai will conduct a memor­
'airview .Temple. 2 p.m.
,
workers tnk
Concert,
Powell
:
last
Tuesday
night.
ial service, Sunday, March 9,
Invitations to attend have
( how the child goes on to f
Church Hall j.30 p.m., 25c.
at the Hompa Temple at 1 p.m. been sent* to every Fukuoka- 2 9—-Hompa
Y. M. B. A. Concert,
A vivid story of how lan­ plorer or Mission Band Groa^
ken
jin
in
the
province.
Every
Hompa
Temple.
<.30
p.r
After the service, the group
guage, music and handicrafts in Saturday School, thence k
(
member
of
the
Seinenkai
is
will invite Issei members to
may be taught to growing Canadian Girls in Training
I
asked
to
attend
to
do
his
or
her
i( 'teen-aged girls, or Trail Rana “Keirokai” as a mark of
N.W. TeMku Club tots, how constructive train- |ers
part.
and Tuxis for ’teen-a^
respect to their achievements
ing in social attitudes and 1
boys,
and finally into Y0J0
and for the purpose of en­
group life may be provided,
Plans
Magnificent
People
’s work.
“s
listing their co-operation and
of adjustment of personality
Several
assistance in the future.
_ hundred Nisei
in family, school and social
"Paster Parade"
boys
and
girls
are now enrelationships, and of the
rolled in classes at three
NEW WESTMINSTER. — To basic molding of character
To Lsarge 'Meeting
branches of the Japanese
many Spring brings thoughts was told in reports from a
DELICIOUS CHINESE DISHES
VANCOUVER.—An affirma­ of budding flowers, spring tog­
United Church.
host of educational workers
tion
of
his
convictions
of
racial
A mixed double quartette of
gery.
new
bonnets
and
so
in our newly-decorated
and leaders who reported
equality and his faith in the forth, but here in the Royal
the
Junior Church Choir rend­
and enlarged premises
upon the many phases of
goodness of man, based upon City, musical and dramatic en­
ered a vocal selection which
their activity.
long years of untiring work as tertainment are the topics of
they will sing at the BorsH
Religious training, it was (home this Sundav.
a missionary worker, conclud- conversation. The reason-—the
emphasized,
was basic through-1
T. Yasunaka was chairman
cd an address here Wednesday announcement of the New
out
the
whole
process
of
edu-^or
the evening.
night at the Japanese Hall by Westminster
Taiiku
Club’s
Dr. J. Batchelor, O.B.E., visit-j concert par excellence, entitled
SEymour 5’774
ing in Vancouver after 64 (“The Easter Parade of Drama
years
of work among the Ainu.and Music,” to be held at the
Commons" Cont'd from Page 1
252 Powe!*
of Japan.
local Buddhist Temple, Easter
had a right to stay. The proper
Howard Green (Cons., Van,
For his educational and so­ ! Sunday, April 13.
way
to treat them was to make South.) said the first step in
The
concert
this
year
will
cial service work among the
them good Canadians.
solving this problem was to
aboriginal natives of Japan, surpass the superb entertain­
“If we are going to have stop
all
immigration from
Dr. Batchelor has received high ment which Taiikuites of­
peace
in
British
Columbia
we
Japan.
decorations from the Emperor fered to the public last year.
must stop abusing the Orient­
Meiji and the present Emperor. Under the able direction of
als,” he said. “The majority
Mr. Samata, two plays will
A missionary stationed in
of
Japanese in Canada would
DO YOU KNOW
be presented, a comedy and
Hong Kong, he went to Japan
be
no more at home in Japan
a tragedy.
® That over half the quantity
in 1875 to regain his health.
than would any other Cana­
The comedy, entitled “Floof
food you eat every day must
There he became interested in
dians.”
tos” will have the audience
be
energy providing?
the Ainu, and remained to
Tom Reid (Lib., New West.)
rollicking in their seats, and
champion their cause, teaching
said that as long as every Jap­
® That the most natural, the
aching from laughter.
and healing, and learning both
anese
born
in
Canada
is
regist
­
most digestible, and the best
Tragic Story
their language and Japanese
ered
in
Japan
and
has
alleg
­
of
all sustaining foods is Bread?
“Gogai Goyen Goju-sen” is a
which he speaks fluently.
iance
to
Japan
he
could
not
be
® That
housekeeping costs
tragic story based upon a fam­
a real citizen of Canada.
k VJ14*/<A\\ Ii^^W.V.VW/bVcan
be
substantially
reduced
ily life awaiting the arrival of
by
using
Bread
more
a special edition of the com­
meals?
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obituaries
of
loved
ones
in
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That
pound for pound,
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the cost?
Rehearsals will begin im­
mediately, and those who at­
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Drama.”

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Red Cross Holds Annual Election
Uracs

Aimi Yoshida Chosen Proxy

Red Cross Unit, whose
?
clicked
incessantly
and industriously on
~ with a New Year ox progress for the Nise
kmtun
whose
sewing
machines
have purred far
ring' Pa on has been established in the Kitsilano di
into the night, turning out refugee P‘« “(^‘^
ganizai
nahmmation of three separate young people
hospitalization, came together lor rneir second General Mee
community: the Kitsilano Koyukai
ing on Sunday afternoon. February 23. at Nippon Club, to
iOS in the
Kyuhin Sei
review their activities of the last ten months.
se. '^derated Kitsilano
Mrs. E. Kitagawa, elected ■ —
;^: tl,e inaugural m
convener
of the Unit for a
Japanese School Hall.
Secure Your
Kitsilsn0
With over 100 enthusiastic
second term, in a brief taliv,
members present, the‘newlystressed the fact that in this
Registration Photos
present conflict, it is the civ­
formed club started off with
ilians who bear the brunt of ;
a bang. Representatives of
EARLY
the suffering and not the sol- I
the Kitsilano Ijikai, Renraku
diets and sailors only, as was
Kyogikai, Japanese School
and
the case in the last war. It
Ijikai, Kitsilano Bukkyokai
was for these innocent vic­
and the Third Avenue Seikotims who cannot provide fox ■ AVOID THE RUSH!
kai, as well as Japanese
themselves, that the speaker I
School Principal K. Tasaka
asked of the members the
were present to offer con­
same energetic co-operation
gratulations and best wishes
they gave to the cause in the.
to the Federation.
Studio
Under the chairmanship of
past.
"Let
us
concentrate
wholeTakeo Nishizaki, the purpose
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h^artedlv on our Canadian life. 313 Main
Specialists in
of the federation and how it
Some day, what we contribute
was formed was explained. The
Shipbuilding
as Japanese to Canadian cus­
common goal of the organiza­
toms
will become part of^ the
tion is to cultivate friendship |
tradition
of Canada, part of the
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and promote physical culture |
AGENT FOR
pattern
of
life that oux chil­
among the young
people s
1369 West Georgia
dren
’
s
children
will
inherit.
groups, and to render service
Vancouver, B. C.
Let us, as loyal Canadians,
to society and community.
The skirl of pipes may be share in the Canadian life ano
The constitution was re­
an unfamiliar sound to the Jap­
viewed and adopted, and the anese Hall. But these bcotch hand down to our sons and
executive was elected from lassies, Kathleen and Jessie daughters the pride and satis­
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393 Powell
of
accomplishments
representatives of the three Nicholson wull put that aricht faction
well done.” Such was tnemcsclubs as follows:
on the night of March 8. when sa°e given by Mrs. E. Kita
-vita-­
Powell Y.P. presents its Vogue
Hideo Yoshida President
gawa.
CORRECTED VISION
Mr. K. Tasaka, advisor: Hi­ Varieties.
To assist the convener in the
In addition to an array of supervision of the Unit which
OFTEN AIDS HEALTH
deo Yoshida, president; Tokuo
singing,
t
of
76
the
finest
Nisei
Saga, general secretary; Kazuo
now has an enrollment
@ Restored health to nerves
Shimizu,
assistant
secretary dancing and acting talent, members, will be the follow
and happier, more comfortable
guest
performers
ing executive: Myea Okamuia,
f Japanese); Setsu Masaki, as­ several
seeing may be found possible
them,
vice-convener; Mrs. Kiyo Maisistant secretary (English); Hi- will appear, among
after an Optometric examina­
highchampionship
TRAVEL BY
kawa, treasurer; Kathleen Fu­
sae Omoto, treasurer; and Tsu­ these
tion.
Attend to your eyes
jiwara,
secretary;
Margaret
neo Kamino and Chogi Yakura, land dancers.
today!
LUXURIOUS
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Both girls, aged 13 and 10 Hayashi, shipper; and Hisako
Convenors on the council years respectively, have won Kato, cutter.
w. B. PITMAN
_ __________
are: Research, Shokei Sumi; numerous prizes and medals
R. S. RHODES
Sports. Yoji Matsumoto; Liter­ for dancing and piping. They
Optometrists
ary, Akira Moritsugu; Social, have been outstanding, too, for
SHIPS
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d
Masao Murakami; Community elocution,
dramatics,
a
Welfare, Takeo Nishizaki.
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Counsellors
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They're the daughters of
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i sparkled with songs by KitsiApril 8
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THE NEW CANADIAN

CIVIS BRITANNICUS SUM

water /neath

(By Alan Morley in the Vancouver Sun}
yj^HENEVER a civic or provincial political howitzer (a b
a large bore) arises in his place among the current Fathers of
Democracy and pops off a salvo at the local “Japanese menace.” I
in the Universit
shortly after the li
y closed, and listened to the chatter of a group of
Japanese students.
The paternal government of Nippon had sent them their usual
quota of nationalistic propaganda. including tourist and “patriotic”
gazines. it appeared, and these Canadian-born boys and girls were reading
them with whoops of glee and amused chuckles.
"Gee.” shrieked one flapper, almost beautiful even by Western
standards, “just IMAGINE going around in a rig like that.” She was
looking at a pretty print of kimono-ed ladies amid cherry blossoms.
' Hah I ” kidded one of the boys, darkly, “just wait till you and
Jimmy get spliced-—look what it says here. 'The Japanese wife is docile
and obedient to the revered head of the family ...”
Everybody laughed---- except Jimmy, who succeeded in looking very
self-conscious and embarrassed.
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WITCH-HUNTERS
COMEHOW I have never since been able to take the conventional picture
of the deep, dark, dangerous and diabolical “Jap” very seriously.
Perhaps some of the older generation may be' all that our anti­
Oriental witch-hunters say they are. On the other hand I’ve always
wondered just why the Japanese government should spend thousands and
thousands disguising naval officers as fishermen and sending them up
and down our coast with salmon nets and sounding lines, when they
could buy British Admiralty charts at $2.5 0 each and clip the details
of our defense establishments from the newspapers.
But what I am concerned about is these youngsters.
Born here, brought up here, educated here, they are as much British
citizens as any
of German or Austrian or Russian origin.
Japan is as “foreign” to them as is France to any French-Canadian.
And they are proud of the fact.
They realize that “Civis Britannicus sum,”---- “I am a British
citizen!” is as proud a declaration as ever was “Civis Romanus sum”
in the time when Rome, ruled the world and that simple statement was
a guarantee of freedom, safety and all the rights of law.
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*

CHEAPENING BRITISH CITIZENSHIP
VVTE, however, though we cannot alter the historic fact that our govern­
ment—not our legendary “corporations”---- invited their parents
here and gave these British-born youngsters the inalienable right to citi­
zenship. seem intent on cheapening the status of British citizenship.
Wc deprive them of the right to vote, the right to be doctors, law­
vers. accountants, pharmacists, miners---- all by law. We deny them, many
other economic rights by tacit boycott. We educate them and refuse to
allow them rhe free exercise of their educational attainments.
Now we seem in .the midst of a campaign to segregate them in
ghettos and denv them the rights of personal freedom, while conferring
on them—-as Vancouver has attempted to do. disastrously, twice in a halfcenturv---- all the privileges of victims of Lynch-law.
We refuse to allow them to serve in the nation's armed forces ---though a good many Vancouver Japanese fought and died bravely there
some 20 years ago.
At the same time, they may—must—pay taxes and obey the law
and be good citizens like the rest of us.

the bridge

p<’

The flowers that bloom in the .
spring, tra la,
In spite of las Sunday’s snow-?
tra la.
Bring visions of summer and
work, tra la.
But; dash it! I'm rarin’ to go . . .
tra la!

Ferdinand, the horticultural Bull,
has nothing on me when it comes to

smelling the flowers. Ahh! Mmm!
All in anticipation, of course, as to

date there is only the hardy forsythia

blooming in my front yard. It's the
same every spring. I see visions of
sweet-smelling

flowers

surrounding

the house in a profusion of colors

and

scents.

verbena and

Sweet peas

lilacs,

and

roses,

gorgeous sprays

of snapdragons against the delicate

baby’s breath ...

Last year I . . . ah . . . slipped,
and as a result my garden was minus
flowers,

that is, generally speaking.

There was one lone peony, a few

A Spring Disease . . .
My garden is a beautiful place. arbored with trees, with w
shadowed trails where the light filters through high branches ...
clump of white violets ... a patch of golden daffodils and swcct.sa^
narcissi . . . and a few rose bushes. I have a rivulet, too. that siE^
trickles by . . .
And the smells in that garden! The feel of the grass beneath
feet! The bright spring sunshine . . . the coolness of black earth ^
sifts through my fingers!
I take a deep breath . . . and I get a whiff of the old. f
mustv rooming-house air.
O well, perhaps some day. who knows? Spring's here, cm
so I give the fern on my window ledge an extra drink of water a^
poke the hardened earth about my bed of sweet
s high abort
Powell Street . . . and pray that they will grow.
A Bit o’ Feminine Psychology
‘'She wraps herself from head to toe
In furs. (Hs very chic, you know;'}
Her bonnet is a dream of feathers.
Her slippers are of finest leathers.
Her purse is made of alligator.
Secured for her from the equator.
But let “him" bag a single deer,
Or a couple o' rabbits, dear, O dear!
He’s just a wicked, heartless brute!
(Those darling bunnies are so cute.)
You might as well bear up and grin.
There's no use. brother, you just can't

worm-eaten roses, and the ubiquitous
California poppy, which I tried in
vain to obliterate. There were, too.

a couple of clumps of Shasta daisies,
but. as you know, they just aren’t
in the same class as the sweet pea,
so far as the perfume goes. The bor­
ders looked woefully bare,
and
though I tried to ease my conscience
with a lot of hocus-pocus, they still
looked awfully bare.

So this year I am laying down
blue prints of the sort of garden I
am going to have.. I have a vague
idea that the garden needs urgently
some . . . ah . . . fertilizer and in­
secticide. (Darn it! My nose is be­
ginning to curl up already.) Per­
haps I had better get someone else
to look after that. Not that I’m
fussy, mind you, but my appetite
has never been very strong since the
last bout I had with several hundred caterpillars,
summers ago.
they came down like
'
a holocaust and
ate every bit of green in my backyard. Even now I feel squeamish at
the remembrance.

IS IT REPAID.’
TT seems to be a new radc of British citizenship we are creating, and
one doubts if the co iseauent cheapening of that proud status is
adequately repaid to us by this repression of loyal British citizens.
For anyone who knows these Nisei youngsters knows that---- amazHowever, when I get the basic
ingly. when one considers the treatment we have given them---- they are
spade-work done by someone that
loyal to their Dominion.
can wield a shovel without break­
Of course, most of the cry against them is based on economic ing his back at every bend, I shall
grounds—that they undercut the white man. Well, every young Jap­ buy me seeds. If again the dealeranese-Canadian I have known would like to get $5 a day’s work instead
gives me some that aren’t guaranteed
.of S>. They want to buy cars, chesterfield suites, chenille bedspreads, and to grow in any kind of soil, 1 might
all the other fooforaw of Western civilization, from lipstick to plushave less of a garden than I plan
fours. But wc choose to say to them that wc will not employ them cxcept for. but if I get two packages instead
at cut rates in the most menial trades, refuse to let them compete at all of one. the percentage of blooms
in the professions for which many of them arc fitted---- and then blame might be doubly assured. (I won­
them for living on a lower economic standard. One can hardlv blame der 'I
them for wondering, sometimes, what is it all about.
*
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*
Last year the garden was rather
BOTH KINDS OF HUMAN BEINGS
parched than otherwise, from lack
we
prepared to admit that the . Japanese-Canadian is of sprinkling. Oh. I was perfectly
smarter and more industrious than we are. it seems that we could willing to do the watering, but it so
that
the
pipes
were
easily solve the problem by giving him an even break. You won't have happened
clogged with age and rust and the
to pass any law to make him raise his own standard of living---- if he has
consequent trickle of water was very
the chance.
discouraging.
Too discouraging. To
From a
viewpoint. I have met a considerable number of
British citizens of Japanese descent who would be welcome on their make sure I carry out my good in­
merits. if not on the score of color. in the vast majority of Vancouver tentions I had the pipes renewed.
homes. I 1nave met another considerable number you wouldn't touch -with
The sun, warm nights, and the
a ten-foot poic. They arc very like white people that wav.
music of the sprinkler at work . .
In fact, you can cut that shorter, and say that they arc very like Gosh!
I. can almost smell the
people, otherwise known as human beings.
flowers!
If wc treated them on that basis, without minimizing their defects
The weeds ?
or exaggerating their quota of virtues, without sentimentality on the one
Well. I shan't think of weeds yet.
hand, or prejudice on the other, we would soon reduce the “Japanese
Hence . . .
problem.” as far as it concerns British citizens of Japanese descent, to a
point where a considerable number of political demagogues, racial fanatics
“The flowers that bloom in the
and anti-democratic agitators would find themselves out of employment.
spring, tra la . . . "

Tips on Tipping . . .
Should one leave 10c. 25c. or a dollar? After a quiet dinner, shall
we say “for two.” in one of those secluded nooks in a place where one
pays more for the atmosphere of warmth, the glitter of long-stemmed
glasses, the gleaming of silver, the inobtrusive manner of the waitresses,
than for the meal itself, how much tip should one leave?

Tipping is a good old European custom but one which has
come to stay in Canadian society, and unless there is a specific refer­
ence of “no tipping." the man of the world, and the girl who would
. be noted for her “savoir-faire" must bow to the custom.
The actual amount of tips to give is always commensurate with the
services received. To give extravagantly marks one, not so much as gen­
erous as it makes him vulgar, for there is about this special kind of
extravagance, a hint of t he “big-time gambler with
loud, checked
suit and diamond tie pin’ manner, which is offensive, to say the least.
And to ignore to tip, well, that brands one as being “niggardly”!
In a hotel dining-room, or any public dining-room where the
service is above that of the tray and counter variety, the individual
tip is 1 0c if the bill is less than a dollar, or 1 0 per cent of the amount
of the bill, but the safest rule, to be- in good taste is "not less than
15c” in any case. Simple, isn’t it?
eras
And, here’s where the ladies get away with less.
is considered ample for a lady dining in a car or hotel dining-room. That
includes services for herself, or if a mother, for herself and one child.
Of course, the tip increases in proportion to the number of children, for
no one can say that children are no trouble. - even the most perfect ones;
For-a man, however. 10 per cent of the amount of the bill is the
usual rule. $
If a man escorts a lady, well, he does the taping for both.
a long time at a hotel, then the waiter or
If one is staying for
’
waitress in the dining-room is tipped weekly, and the average tip is Si
for a woman, and $1.50 for a man. Lucky Lady!
Besides the waiters in the dining-room., at a hotel. a woman remem­
bers the hall boy, the porter. the chambermaid. The tip is 25c each.
except for the hall boy, who receives 10c on each individual service.

• • The man is not expected to pay the chambermaid unless she per­
forms some special service for him. but he must tip all others who sene
him. A porter who carries his bags to his room is tipped 10c ?. trunk,
the bell boy who answers his calls receives 10c per call.
Well, these are the major tips on tipping. However, if you re th-,
kind who hates memorizing the little details, your place is destined forewi
to be the lunch counter, with a voice forever yelling “Chicken on vhiA
a pair” to some unseen cook, but if you would be a “savant then remem­
ber tipping is an European custom that is here to stay.

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FES CAPTURE ONLY WIN
Visitors Flash Too Much Scoring Power
Rookie Tokawa and Ashikawa Shine

Clialleng Trophy
ri Chib
e Fuji
petition.
Insurance Agency
'aiiaka
n by the Fuji
^possession for

A new page in the Vancou-; Sumiyoshi led the visitors with

ver Japanese B a s k e t b a 1 1> 7 points?.
League history was written last i « i
r _ I J - c p, tm nerf
Saturday night at the spaciousj
^conipeHtioH_ i
4^2
Exhibition Gardens when the^he jittery Blubelles, most of
Haningami Trophy ano.
highly-touted
Fife
Nippons,
ij]
iem
playing for the first time
&t Cup-won by
Courier League AA cliam~ i before a crowd of any great
A.o»l» fm the
pionsand also holders of the i number, succumbed to a 13-12
Konship (downhill ano
I
Pacific
Northwest ohampion- defeat from the tall Fife girls
THE NEW CANADIAN
FEB. 21/41
ship,
gently
but
soundly in the second feature of the
Jo'-11 / •
• 1 n
J
/ s Toda Memorial Cup—;
trounced the local all-stars to evening’s bill. The Fife girh
/ Jeep Inamoto as the:
a tune of 58-38 before the big­ now ranking third in the Seattle
°/ skier acquiring the most
Jimmie
Suzuki
gest Japanese audience ever to cagette league, made every use
The 19th Hele
of their height and piled up
witness a hoop game.
inis.
*
*
Fife Nippons’ high-calib- | most of their points during the.
bv the dare-devil per- j
red teamwork and aggres­ first, half, playing girl
KS
ince of Fuji Ski Club s
siveness coupled with phen­
- In the second half during
/Dian “Jeep” Inamoto, who
omenal sniping by Shig Ta­ men’s rules, the effects of the
Members of the Nippon Golf Club will swing into action this Sunday
rhimself three cups the at their old stamping grounds, Langara Golf Course, when the season
keuchi,
Courier
League’s gruelling pace told heavily on
highest
individual
scorer the visitors, but they desper­
Wgami trophy’ the
will be opened with an 1 S-hole handicap affair in honor of Consul Kenji
2 Memorial Cup and the Nakauchi, honorary member of the club, who leaves us shortly to assume
who netted himself 28 points, ately hung on to their slim lead
•
' "
’ in
• the evening
was enough to send the fans and as the final whistle sound­
■nshijima Cup, the loca SKI ;
The
tourney
will
be
followed
w post in Los Angeles
* engraved its name on tne
home satisfied and got, as ed they still nursed a slim onewith a banauet at the Fuji.
dutiful Nishihama Challenge
the old saying' goes, “their point margin for the victory.
Consul Nakauchi has donated a very handsome trophy to the club,
■Qphy. emblematic of the Pamoney’s worth.”
Akiko Yoshinaka. Cardinal re­
'fic Northwest supremacy, for for which members will shoot later on in the season.
The local Nippons who had inforcement, sparked the locals,
looks like a
With the divot-diggers playing to old handicaps, it
' third consecutive year as
been limbering up for the garnering 7 points for the top
affair,
and
the
19th
hole
is
predicting
an
even
net
par good
Jv out-raced the Seattle Rok- wide open
senior classic event with Fife scoring honors, while Surnie
3 Ski Club last Sunday on the enough to cop first prize.
for weeks before staged a Itami and gar iling Fumiye
teep slopes of Grouse Moun- Replacing Divots . . .
valiant, but a losing battle. Yoshida followed close with 6
They tried to apply their fast and 5 respectively.
Our
hard-working
assistant-secretary
has
compiled
some
very
msiii.
terestinq
data:
Last
year
in
the
ten
tournaments
held,
"Jackson"
Katsu
­
tricky passing plays, but Fife
It was a big day for the local
clamped down and intercepted
Vancouver
Nlpposis—^Suzuki
L
kawa
and
Herb
Tanaka
had
an
average
round
of
81.4,
followed
close.y
takers, as they copped every ioka,
ashhnoto.
Akiyama
(i.
Nobu
by
the
veteran
Isogai
with
81.9
and
Reg
Yasui
with
82.
This
is
the
big
the passes and finally the locals
jing in sight- Although there
rsuTocere five cups at stake the four we expect to see clean up in the Northwest Tournament this year. had to rely on solos to break kamoto. Miike.
Other just as interesting figures were compiled, but 'tis thought the air-tight Fife team s zone kawa 13. Nika it.
•isitors returned home with
11. TakeFife Nipponsdefence.
.ary a cup tucked under their best to leave them out . . . golf players are touchy, you know ...
uchi 28, Y. Ka
As expected Shig Ashika­
rms.
1941 and Golf ...
.
Silver 7—.1. Ikeda; A. Yoshinaka.
wa played his usual good
Down the tricky, ice-cov1. Will "Jackson" Katsukawa successfully defend his Northwest
2, M. Yoshinaka, F. Ikeda. 6, Kusagame, sinking 9 field goals, kabe, Kitaguchi
10,
Kutsukake,
ered slalom course, Jeep Ina­
crown? And if not, v/ho will succeed him?
1 sezaki,
Akiyama,
Yaiuupzawii,
but
Toru
Tokawa,
prize
2. Will we have a new champion—so far to my knowledge, NO
moto who has been skiing
—IS.
rookie of the year, stole the Uyeno
Tacoma Bussei Girls—Wakaba­
NISEI has ever won this title. Here's to a banner year for Nisei golfers,.
for only three years, came
show with his sparkling per­ yashi, N. Sumiyoshi 7, Kikuchi, K.
3. • Will anybody break the Japanese record at Langara set last
down in perfect form in a
Sumiyoshi 4, K. Fujimoto 2, M.
formance which was out- Sumivoshi
2, T. Fujimoto, Kubo—
record time of 58 2-5 seconds.
year by Herb Tanaka—a one under par 71 ?
shaded only by Ashikawa’s
The next best time of the
I'll give you the answers in December.
llaruno
accurate sniping prowess.
Blnebelles.
meet was our local ski cap­
Dodo Club or Dub Club?
The city refs, Basil Sands
tain, Bus Ohori, who flashed
Hastings Park golfers (as they call themselves) intend to go about and Gummy Leach said nix on
Ota—
2, M-. Yr
through the finish gate in
thinos in a big way. There's talk in the air of a May Day tourney, ex­
the
rough
stuff
and
before
the
TaFife—1t imi 6, F.
60 3-5 seconds.
clusively for the divoteers of the East End course—for ^specifications and
M.
final whistle ended the Van- mura 2, Yamam at
On the second run, Nobi qualifications inquire of your sports editor, Seiji OnizuKa.
'ujita—
13.
Yoshida,
b
Akiyama,
couver massacre Joe
ianno, veteran Rokka skier,
Baron Wakabayashi and Shig
finished ahead of Inamoto by
for
the
FINEST
CAKES
Ashikawa
headed
i 1-5 seconds, but on totalling,
showers via the foul route. —.
® local daredevil finished
fell ahead of the field of 12
Silver 7's Win
starting at 2:00 p.m.
o gain the much reputed honor
By Frank Moritsugu
evening’s
Headlining
the
n being the foremost Japanese
Rules of the tournament are
Next Sunday, March 2, the ।
392 Powell St.
Silver
7’s
events the revamped
ikier in the Pacific Northwest. first annual table tennis tour­ as follows:
packet of
Sey. 3933
(1) Every member is elig­ pulled the surprise eking out
Compilation of records by nament of the Kitsilano Koyuthe whole affair by
kai
(Nibu)
will
be
held
in
the
ible for play. (2) A draw has
nficials Art Langlie and Frank
Bukkyokai
Hall. been made by the committee a slim 18-15 victory over the
PIONEER REPRESENTATIVE
lotton after the meet, found Kitsilano
Tacoma
Bussei
girls.
The
for
and the first round will take
he local club well ahead of the :
visitors led by the Sumiyoshi ।
place as in the draw. (3) Any
visitors. bettering their time by
Singer Sewing
Japanese Baseball player not present by 2:30 p.m. sisters held a decided edge
mething like 143 1-5 seconds
over the localites, but the big
Machine Company
will default. (4) The tournam the total of both runs, and
floor
and lack of substitution
League
Meeting
two
ment will be divided into
hus winning permanent poson the Tacoma bench had a
,grOups, “A” and “B.”
session of the Tanaka Insurdisastrous effect and in the dy­
Called
mce Agency Cup for team
(5) The “A” group will con- ing seconds of the game Flor­
competition.
The
Japanese
Baseball sist of the. members of the Kit- ence Ikeda and Sally Kitagu­
The final individual standLeague will hold its ninth silano Koyukai team in the chi’s quickies shelved the first
ngs were:
annual meeting Friday at the Japanese Table Tennis League victory in history for the local
NO OBLIGATION FOR
and
a
few
others
chosen
by
the
Japanese
School
from
7:30
FREE SERVICE
1, Jeep Inamoto (V); 2. Nobi
cagettes. Sally Kitaguchi
1766 Franklin St. High. 5978-R
Kanno (S); 3, Bus Ohori (V); p.m. Election of officers and committee, and the winners of rimmed the hoop for 10 points
- Tom Hatanaka (V); 5, Frank various business matters will the “B” group. (6) The “B” to lead the scorers while Nobi
group will consist of beginners
Hatanaka (V); 6. Ted Naka­ be taken up.
League officials and team or all those not in the “A"’
shima (S); 7, Otto Matsui (V);
(7) A cnaiienge
challenge smeiu
shield
8, Tod Fujihira (S); 9, Archie representatives are request­ group. (<)
Consult—
Swill be awarded to the winner
i(ia (S); 10, Sam Hagino (V); ed to attend.
Applications for entries
of the “A” group. (8) There
11, Line Beppu (S): 12, Eugene
Hayashi (S).
will also be considered.
will be four valuable prizes for
the winners of the “B” group.

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HARRY’S DRUB M. & N. TO WIND UP LEAGUE RACE
Husky Hatashita Brothers Capture Canadian Judo Championships
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Senior and Black Bek Champions

Strong Mission Team A4 & N and Mcnkawas to Battle I
Throws AU Comers

Brother Acts Help Marpole and Monarch

The Annual All - Canada
-The orange and black colors of Harry’s flew at
Judo Championship Tourna­ Japanese Basketball League and sponsor Harry Miva? v &
ment took place last Saturday a picture of delight as his boys finished off their s~hPd i'
OT
night at the Japanese Hall with drubbing the definitely slumped M & N squad 27-22 t
~
~ 0 {i
over 100 judoists from the vari­ first possession of the new J.C.C.L. Cup.
Playoffs start next week be­
ous kidokans on Vancouver
Island and Lower Mainland tween M & N and Maikawa
competing for the All-Canada in a two out of three series Cards
Stretch Lent.
championship title.
for the right to meet Harry’s.
From a classy roster of six­
Unimpressive was Harry’s
In Cagette Loop
teen aspiring champions, Mi­ win.
They lacked all theiri
The league-leading Cardi
noru Hatashita, big brawny champoiship quality and for a
“nidan” from the Vancou­ while M & N led by smoothie nals, claimants to the beaufi
ver Centre recaptured the George Suzuki held a definite ful Uchida Challenge Cun
beautiful Nemichi Challenge edge over the winners, how­ advanced farther ahead of the
Silver Ts and Bluebelles as
Cup, which he had lost to ever Ken Hori, hard-working
they
chalked up a close call
Eiki Kawano last year, claim­ forward breezed in a couple of
ing the All-Canada title of quickies which stowed away over the white-shirted Silver
Black Belt champion.
the game with a five-point lead 7 bya mere digit, 25-24.
It was a night of great re­ for Harry’s.
Florence Ikeda, southpaw
joicing for the Hatashita clan
Shig Ashikawa, ace sniper, flash caused most of the ex­
for not only did one of their rang the bell for 10 points while citement in the game that
members claim a title, but Osa­ Ken Hori and George Suzuki furnished plenty of laughs.
mu, 16-year-old brother of the shoved in 8 points apiece.
With but seconds to go. she
champion, survived a field of
It was a sad and bewildered repeated her Saturday’s per­
80 seasoned judoists to bring Maikawa quintette that took formance against the Taco­
home
the All-Canada senior the floor against the speedy In­ ma girls, by breezing in with
Here they are! A pair of brothers it wouldn’t pay to
championship crown and the termediate All - Stars.
The a .quickie just as the whistle
get tough with. Minoru Hatashita. '\-L won the black belters
beautiful
cup
donated
by
the
blew.
tricky
intermediates
ran
rings
open Canadian championship in the annual judo tourna­
Yudansha.
around
the
older
'
fellows
and
At present leading the cagment last Saturday, while younger brother Osamu carried
Mission Triumphs
thoroughly trounced them 29- ette league in individual
off the senior championship. A secret, in passing, Osamu
In team tournament, a strong 16.
scoring, Florence rang up 10
will play the part of gentle Juliet in the Powell C.G.I.T.
delegation
from Mission City,
Maikawa’s shooting was ter­ points for the winners. Team­
Taxis concert on the 22nd of this month. The trophies which
headed by Eiji Yamada, won rible and they were kept score­ mate Eiko Kutsukake was
will adorn their mantelpieces are shown in front.
the coveted silverware for the less till half the second quarter scarcely less outstanding pot­
All-Canada team supremacy by had gone.
A. free throw by ting in 6 points that certainly
defeating Steveston 6 matches Kaz Suga and two quickies sav­ came in handy.
to 3 in the final round.
ed further humiliation.
The
In the previous round Steves- score at half-time, 14-5.
piled up 31 points betweer
ton’s five-man team eliminated
In
the
intermediate
tilts
this
them for a 49-28 victory ovei
How time flies! Last week at this by far the most successful one, al­
Kitsilano,
the
defending
cham
­
week,
Miike
brothers,
Sub
and
Nomads.
time I was going around like a mad though the Americans outclassed us
Monarchs, another team
house arranging for the hundred and in basketball, but then that was to pions, in closely fought matches Jinx sewed up the 11th straight
that
had
to
be
carried
to
two
victory
for
Marpole
when
they
with
a doublethreat brother
one last minute details for the big be expected.
Fife Nippons really extra fights before the winner
combination
soundly trounc­
basketball event. A whole week has showed plently of class, but with all
BLACK-BELTERS
was
determined.
ed the hard-working Celtic
passed and here I am seated at my considerations Vancouver put up a
_ 1st Round—Mitani
’shodan’ bt.
The Mission team of Ya­
crew 49-28 last Tuesday
Yamamoto
‘shodan’,
Kuramoto
faithful old typewriter reminiscing h—uva good fight!
We couldn't
‘shodan’ bt. Tamoto •shodan', Saka­ night. Toru and Al Tokawa
mada,
George
Ikebuchi,
Shi
­
of that eventful weekend.
I hope have asked for a better show.
ta ’nidan' bt. Mitani ‘shodan', Hata­
geto Shimoda, Yoshio Senta shita ‘nidan’ bt. Hashizume ‘nidan’, sank in 16 and 14 points re­
everybody enjoyed themselves!
Everything went along smoothly,
and
Kazutoshi
Okuma Kamino ‘shodan’ bt. Kawaguchi spectively.
All. in all, the biggest interna­ the dance was a big success and the
nidan', Tsutsui ‘shodan’ bt. Omori
reached the finals by defeat­ ‘‘nidan
Ernie’s lost all chances for ;
’, Nishi ‘nidan’ bt. Kimura
tional date held in Vancouver was largest crowd of basketball fans
ing Fairview 8-2 in the first ‘nidan’, Kondo ‘shodan’ bt. Naka- place in the playoffs wher
ever turned out for the game. What round and Chemainus 5-3 in
gama shodan’, Uyeda ‘nidan’—bye. Steveston nailed them dowr
2nd Round—Nishi bt.
Tsutsui.
pleased the officials in charge most,
the semi-finals.
Umetsu nidan' bt. Mitani, Kondo and handed out a 44-29 she!
though was the co-operation they
Twenty-three persons who bt. Kunimoto, Hatashita b.t Kura- lacking. Dave Naruse, Steve
received from the rest of the fellows. have contributed to the ad­ moto, Sakata bt. Uyeda, Kamino bt. ston’s
dynamo, assured the
Yasuda ‘shodan', Ozaki ‘shodan’—
It was largely due to their full- vancement and development of bye.
fishermen of an easy win by
Quarter-final—Hatashita bt. Ka­ going on a 12 point scoring
hearted support that everything went the judo art were presented
REFRIGERATORS
mino,
Sakata bt. Umetsu, Kondo
along so smoothly.
I take time out with certificates in recognition bt. Ozaki.
spree in the last quarter
323 Powe!! Street
now to say "thanks a lot fellows." of their services, by the BlackSemi-final—Hatashita bt. Nishi, George Sato led Ernies with 9
SE ymour 41 21
Sakata bt. Kondo.
The .Americans outclassed us in Belters Society.
points.
Final—Hatashita bt. Sakata.

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The high-spot of the year, the Okumura and Baron Wakaba­ next two 13-10 and 11-5.
The highly rated shuttle
6th Annual B. C. Open Japan­ yashi, defending champions of
artists Lucy Yoyanagi and
ese Badminton Tournament, the Men’s A class.
went into full swing last night
Also reaching the third round Fumi Deshima took an easj
at the Strathcona gym, elimin­ were Ernie Arikado and Masao win over Masako Iwasa and
ating many hopefuls as seeded Matsui.
This topnotch duo Kay Yamaga to stay solidly
shuttiers came through with easily eliminated Hiroshi Nishi in the race for* the crown that
flying colors to stay in the and S. Nakado from Steveston, Kochi-Sogawa from Steve­
champioship race that will be after the latter pair had sur­ ston vacated this year.
determined tonight.
Lucy Fujimagari, the dark
vived Strathcona’s hard-work­
It was a great night for the ing combination of Yoshi Ono horse entrant from West 'Van
© Strop, razor, blades in
While others were still skiing on bird-shuttlers as city leaguers and Roy Kamino in three hard- couver, who is supposed to e
a compact, attractive bake­ the Plateau, Jeep was skimming and Japanese Leaguers assem­ fought sets.
a ‘find’, failed to show up, a
lowing
Hide Hyodo and sis er
lite case.
down the Big Hill with other season­ bled together to determine the
Ladies
Smashing
Chiyo
to
reach the senu’s witn
ed top-notchers as Bus Ohori, Ha­ supremacy of the Men’s A class
IDEAL . . .
In
the
ladies
’
doubles
the
out any competition.
tanaka brothers, Otto Matsui, Keigo and the ladies’ doubles.
9 for travel
strong Y. P. due, Mary Saegusa
Men’s Boubles
vasn
Inouye and many others.
Two third round matches and Mary Nishikawara out­
1st Round:—F. Kishi-Ko ^0Dt.© for gifts
Toyota-Yatabe
ya
Since working at Woodfibre, Jeep were completed however, as classed Japanese Leaguers Lily bt.
1-5-2: Morito-Kameda bt.
has come out only occasionally, but Mac Tamura and partner 'Tong’ Ide and Kay Uyeno to gain the kamura 15-8. 15-12: K
bt. Kamino-Ono.
M
he was picked on the team as a sort Kobayashi, last year’s B class right to meet Sadako Iwasa and kade
15-9:
IdejFujioka _ ot._ _. pajj.a
of a fill in, a dark horse. The long- champions, polished off the Teiko Ide in the semi-finals. Shimizu la-13, i--!’. lo'':. ■;.;
bt. Oki-Kanzaki
shot came in and Jeep carted home Strathcona duo Sam Hagino and Sadako Iwasa and Teiko Ide Kumagai
all the individual prizes at stake, tennis star Shig Yamashita in dropped their first game to
2nd Round.: — Tannira^KobM.a^
bt.
’ ^.^y
gaining
the
recognition
of
being
the
two straights, but they will be hard-smashing Pat Kawajiri E. Hagino-Yamasniia
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best skier in the Pacific Northwest, underdogs in the betting to­ and Haruko Maruno 4-11, but Nakade 15-13, k-4: Ouj e y „n
vs. Sawada-Nagaia I?--/
all in three years.
Wotta man!
night when they meet Shig rallied sensationally to take the comp.
Special mention should be given
to "Jeep" Inamoto, the Cinderella
Skier.
I remember three years ago
when he first took up skiing.
Be­
ginners all of us, but Jeep caught
on fast.
His recklessness and his
daredevil antics with plenty of guts
to back it up, soon gained him the
name of "Wild Man" and put him
well ahead of the other novices.

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